El intelecto agente según Iosepho de Aguilera Salmanticensis (s. XVIII)

Abstract

Joseph of Aguilera defends some tomist thesis respect of the agent intellect: it is a potency of the soul; it is really different from the possible intellect; it forms the species. But he defends other that are own and peculiar thesis: his operation is not immanent; it is a divine motion; it can depend on the will. It defends also others affirmations which are typical of his epoch: it needs of the phantasmata to form the species; it is not cognitive.