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.