Aquinas and the Arabs: Aquinas’s First Critical Encounter with the Doctrine of Averroes on the Intellect, In 2 Sent. d. 17, q. 2, a. 1 KU Leuven
In this article I first provide an analysis of Aquinas's accounts of his philosophical predecessors and of their reasoning for their positions together with his critical rejection of their views asserting in various ways that human intellect or intellective soul is one for all human beings. This makes clear his own impressive depth of understanding of his sources as well as his sophisticated critical insights into arguments relevant to the ...