EL LUGAR DEL INTELECTO AGENTE EN EL PENSAMIENTO DE AVEMPACE
Title: EL LUGAR DEL INTELECTO AGENTE EN EL PENSAMIENTO DE AVEMPACEPublished by: Revista Espanola de Filosoffa Medieval
Release Date: 2002
Genre: Filsafat
The purpose of this article is to expound the very original role of the Agent Intellect in the Ibn Bliyya's (Avempace) philosophy and the steps and levels of knowledge to achieve the «mystical union» with it (the final goal of man): the potential or material intellect, the intellect in fact, the acquired intellect and, finally, the Agent Intellect in which the essences are contemplated without material and individual substratum, as pure intelligibles, and the cognoscent subject and the object are identical. This ulti- mate stage and perfection is a gift that God gives to man, after his natural effort. In this conception there is an original transit from the gnoseologicallevel to the existential and metaphysical one. For the rest, Avempace follows Plato, Aristotle, the Encyclopaedia Rasli'il ijwlin al-~afii' and others.
