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So Aristotle believed in a separation between passive intellect and active intellect. The active intellect is declared unmixed in the body, and declared basically indestructible, persisting past death. It is responsible in some way for the possibility of all thought. And moreover, interpreters connect it due to its qualities to the prime mover. Prime movers for Aristotle think, but only of themselves (self-consciousness): they alone are incorruptible and immaterial substances. Assume for a moment that the active intellect is in this sense a prime mover, then it is self-consciousness, and also responsible for thought (had by the passive intellect) through its activity. This last sentence sounds an awful lot like the role of spontaneity and the transcendental unity of apperception in Kant. What's going on here?

>>15880216
That is not Immanuel Kant. This is.

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>>11834457

This man is not Kant.

This man is not Kant.

This man is not Kant.