Intellectus possibilis y multitudo: las fuentes filosóficas del averroísmo político en Monarchia de Dante Alighieri
The paper suggests a reading about Dante’s acceptance of the Averroist thesis about the unity of intellect in his political work Monarchia. I consider the philosophical sources of discussion of this thesis in the second half of the thirteenth century, among which I specially focus on its refutation...
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| Language: | deu |
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Instituto de Estudos Medievais
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Medievalista |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/medievalista/1409 |
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| Summary: | The paper suggests a reading about Dante’s acceptance of the Averroist thesis about the unity of intellect in his political work Monarchia. I consider the philosophical sources of discussion of this thesis in the second half of the thirteenth century, among which I specially focus on its refutation by Thomas Aquinas and on its nuanced admission by Siger of Brabant. I argue that the distinction between the universality and unity of the possible intellect and the plurality of received forms by the imagination of each individual, a position suggested by Siger of Brabant, is the clue of the use that Dante makes of monopsychism in Monarchia, an appraisal that gives birth to a new model of human community signally immanent and secular. |
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| ISSN: | 1646-740X |