Aquinas, De unitate intellectus
Aquinas, De unitate intellectus
Aquinas, De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas (1976), p.306b, lines 336-343:
Adhuc, secundum istorum positionem destruuntur
moralis philosophie principia : subtrahitur
enim quod est in nobis. Non enim est aliquid
in nobis nisi per uoluntatem; unde et hoc ipsum
uoluntarium dicitur, quod in nobis est. Voluntas
autem in intellectu est, ut patet per dictum
Aristotilis in De anima, et per hoc quod in
substantiis separatis est intellectus et uoluntas . . . . .
Aristotle, De Anima 3.9, 432b5: en te tō logistikō gar hē boulēsis genetai
Smith translation in Barnes, v. 1, p.687: “for wish is found in the calculative part . . . . .”
Vetus and Novis translations: in rationativa enim voluntas fit . . . . .
Translation from Arabic in Averroes’s Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle: Principale enim existit in part cogitativa.
Arabic De Anima, ed. Badawi, p.80: الروية في الفكر “Wish is in cogitation.”
See R. C. Taylor, “Cogitatio, Cogitativus and Cogitare: Remarks on the Cogitative Power in Averroes,” in L’elaboration du vocabulaire philosophique au Moyen Age, J. Hamesse et C. Steel, eds., pp. 111-146. [Rencontres de philosophie Medievale Vol. 8.] (Turnhout, Brepols, 2000), pp. 140 ff.