i6o ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book III. 



CHAP. IV. 



The Sluefiionjiated^ Whether the Pradlcal and Speculative Intelled 

 he the fume ? — They are the fame. — This the Opinion o/"Simplicius. 

 — Objeclions to this Opinion. — ift, That the Oh]tGis of the two 

 Intelleds are different. — zdo, The Authority ©/"Ariftotlc on the o- 

 ther Sith.—Anfiver to the firft Objedion., that the Pradical Intel- 

 led is a neceffary Step in the Progrefs to the Perfed Intellcdl, and 

 that the Objeds 0/ Pradical and Speculative Intelled are not more 

 different than the Ideas o/perfed and imperfed Intelled 7niiji be. 



Difiinfiion betivixt Pradical Ideas and Senfations. — Anfiver to 



the Authority ©/"Ariftotle — that, ivhen he /peaks of the Intelled 0- 

 perattng by the Phantafia, he means the Pradical Intelled. — The 

 fame ivhcn hefpeaks of a pafTive, incorruptible, Intelled. — The In- 

 terpretation of Simplicius of that Paffage, better than o/'Philopo- 

 nus. — This is evident from Ariftotle's Words. — No Philofopher ever 

 thought more highly of^ the Pluman Soul. — He makes Energy its 

 Effence in a fe par ate State — Joined -with the Body it mufi befome- 

 times quiefcent, as is Senfitive Life. —Difference, in this refped, 

 betivixt the Senfitive and Vegetable Part of us. — What Ariilotle 

 means luheu he fays, that the Soul, in a feparate State, does not 

 Remember, Reafon, Love, or Hate. — Wonder that Ariftotle's 

 meaning fjjould have been miflaken. — The Reafon of the mijlake. — 

 Ohfervations on the DoBrines of this Chapter — as to the Mind's in- 

 tuitive Perception in a feparate State, and as to its conftant Adivi- 

 ty — the Mind's Sympathy -with the Body iii this State — ivhat 

 Ariftotlc ?neans by the Soul's not Loving or Hating in a feparate 

 State. 



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AVING thus made the diftindion betwixt pradical and fpe- 

 culative Intelled, let us now inquire, \yhether the Mind, 



that 



