Journal of Philosophy and Theology

Aristotle on God and the Human Intellect
Professor James Duerlinger

Abstract
In DA III 4−5 Aristotle explains what he believes to be the essential and necessary properties of the part of a soul with which it thinks intelligible forms. This is the part he calls the intellect (nous). My main concern in this essay is to translate and explain what Aristotle says in DA III 5 about God and the intellect, but since what he says in DA III 5 is a logical continuation of what he says in DA III 4, I will first explain what he says in DA III 4 from the perspective of its relation to what he says in DA III 5.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/ijpt.v3n1a3