Open AccessEl intelecto agente según Ignatio Vincentio / The Agent Intellect According to Ignatio Vincentio
Author(s) -
Juan Fernando Sellés
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
revista española de filosofía medieval/revista española de filosofía medieval
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2530-7878
pISSN - 1133-0902
DOI - 10.21071/refime.v22i.6223
Subject(s) - intellect , soul , task (project management) , philosophy , principal (computer security) , epistemology , computer science , management , economics , operating system
In this work we review the three principal theses that Ignatio Vincentio, a Spanish thinker of the seventeenth century, defends about the agent intellect: 1) it is the same potency as the possible intellect, only with a formal distinction and plurality of names; 2) it has three tasks: a) to illuminate phantasmata, b) to make them intelligible in act, and c) to abstract the intelligible species from them; and 3) it will remain in the separated soul performing the same task as in the present situation [(in this life) ?], but without conversion to phantasmata.