PHL206H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Concept Learning, Jean Buridan, Substantial Form
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Intellectual memory (math) is part of intellective soul. Siger: there is only one intellective soul. If there is single intellect, then all of us would be just one common thinker and we perceive all things in the same way (everything objective) Olivi: intellective soul is not the form of human being, not body (unlike aquinas) Intellective and sentient soul are rooted in the same substance (closely connected but not united as one) and intellective part is related to body through sensitive part. Aquinas: thinking is a non-bodily activity because it would impede cognition of other things (i. e. sick man"s tongue, mind operates on its own without body. Intelligible species (intellect) is there because all intellectual cognition requires input from senses and how this input gets into the intellect (bridges the gap between material and immaterial). It activates the intellect and determines it to a certain object: cognition is a division of labour.
