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    The possible intellect must be redefined as an active fac... — Carmelics
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    The possible intellect must be redefined as an active faculty

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    • 1.The human mind requires an active faculty to account for the act of judgement
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    • 2.The traditional conception of the possible intellect as purely passive does not account for the act of judgement
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphic framework distinguishes the possible intellect as pure potentiality precisely because its receptivity is the condition for universal cognition.
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    • 2.Introducing active properties into the possible intellect collapses the functional distinction between it and the agent intellect, rendering the Aristotelian duplex intellect theory incoherent.
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    • 3.Aquinas and Averroes both maintain that the passivity of the possible intellect is not a deficiency but the metaphysical ground of its capacity to receive all intelligible forms without distortion.
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    • 1.The act of judgement can be adequately accounted for by the agent intellect's illuminating function without requiring the possible intellect itself to be reconceived as active.
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    • 2.Zabarella's conflation of the locus of activity with the possible intellect confuses the faculty that receives intelligibles with the faculty that abstracts them, a distinction preserved rigorously by Themistius and the Peripatetic tradition.
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    Therefore with the metaphysical requirements of intellection taken for granted, the main epistemological problem shifted to the manner in which the intelligible species was turned into a known object. Zabarella, considering the agent intellect as the divine cause of general intelligibility, could renounce innate principles and retain the Aristotelian teaching of the inductive acquisition of the first principles themselves. But Zabarella had instead the problem of restoring to the human mind an
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