by Sean Foley and Jonathan Buttaci

Published in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 403-443

Criterion 1. The receptive intellect must play a constitutive role in the human activity of contemplation.

Criterion 2. If the agent intellect is a human intellectual principle, it must play a role in the human activity of contemplation that reflects its divine character.

I - The Divinity of the Agent Intellect

II - Criteria for Interpretive Adequacy 00:08:00

III - A Justification for Applying Criterion 2 Ex Hypothesi 00:21:11

IV - Assimilationist Proposals 00:24:02

V - Dispositionalist Proposals 00:39:45

VI - Initiationist Proposals 00:46:26

VII - Abstractionist Proposals 00:50:12

VIII - Preliminary Conclusions 01:12:05