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.