La Imaginación en Avempace

• Autores: Joaquín Lomba Fuentes
• Localización: Tópicos: Revista de Filosofía, ISSN-e 2007-8498, ISSN 0188-6649, Nº. 29, 2005 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Los comentadores árabes y latinos de Aristóteles), págs. 157-170
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Aristotle's first commenter, followed by Averroes, Avempace with the Arab Muslim tradition, performs an important role in the issue of human imagination, distinguishing three levels, which are: 1) Epistemological: imagination as a mediative role between external as well as the internal senses and reason, between material and spiritual, the individual and the general; 2) As life's motor: sponsor of "movable" ideal life which, assisted by reason, tends to improve and engender the desire and passion of reaching the mentioned ideal, but over and done with; 3) Moral and social dimensions: are also divided in three forms of life depending on the spiritual degree and, because of the pleasure they offer, they become attractive to each individual, turning out to be decisive in their way of life: a) Corporal forms, b) Spiritual forms and, finally, c) Second degree spiritual forms, these last ones enclose the supreme objective: the immaterial intelligibles' contemplation and the mystical union with the Agent Intellect, accomplishing, in consequence, an intellectual mysticism.