What Is The Most Divine Thing In Us? A Criterion For Interpreting De Anima 3.4-5

by Sean Foley and Jonathan ButtaciPublished in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 403-443Criterion 1. The receptive intellect must play a constitutive role in the human activity of contemplation.Criterion 2. If the agent intellect is a human intellectual principle, it must play a role in the human activity of contemplation that reflects its divine character.I - The Divinity of the Agent IntellectII - Criteria for Interpretive Adequacy 00:08:00III - A Justification for Applying Criterion 2 Ex Hypothesi 00:21:11IV - Assimilationist Proposals 00:24:02V - Dispositionalist Proposals 00:39:45VI - Initiationist Proposals 00:46:26VII - Abstractionist Proposals 00:50:12VIII - Preliminary Conclusions 01:12:05