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Intellectus agens (Intellectus agens)

(Language: Latin)

Short Description: agent Intellect

Long Description: “agent Intellect”; in Aristotelian and scholastic epistemology, the faculty of the mind responsible for abstracting intelligible forms from the data of sense.

Sources: The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger