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    It is not the case that Intellect or intellectual principles and powers must be introduced to explain man

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    • 1.Speech and rational behavior can be fully explained as emergent properties of complex biological and social organization, without positing a separate intellectual principle.
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    • 2.Aristotle's hylomorphism demonstrates that the soul as form of the body already accounts for all human capacities, including reason, without requiring an additional ontological layer.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Ibn Rushd (Averroes) argued that the material intellect is a single, unified substance shared by all humans, making individual intellectual principles explanatorily superfluous for explaining particular persons.
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    • 2.If intellect is universal and impersonal rather than individuated, it cannot serve as the distinguishing explanatory principle for what makes any specific man who he is.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Man possesses speech
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    • 2.Speech proceeds from intellect or the intellectual principles and powers
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    • 3.The soul alone is insufficient to explain man's distinctive capacities
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