medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Gordon,
Here is a fast translation :
"Thomas sometimes quotes Arabs because Aristotle's translations came in
Europe by them. But I never read him saying that. It is not his manner of
teaching. Even for Aristotle which he admires for his relevancy and names
him the Philosopher, saint Thomas does not have that type of phrase. In
fact, he prefers in philosophy, truth to the authority of authors.
Sometimes, he agrees with the Arabs as is shown in this quote : " In fact:
it has always been a principle for all those who would philosophize among
the Arabs and the peripateticians (?), namely that the intellect is not
multiplied according to numbers, the same among the latins. In fact, Algazel
was not a latin, but an Arab. And Avicennae, who was also an Arab, says in
his work on The Soul : " Prudence, stupidity, opinion and other similar
things are only in the essence of the soul. Therefore the soul is not
numerically one, but multiple, and one as a species."
Sometimes he does not agree."
Regards, Georges T.
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