El intelecto agente según Alphonsi, archiepiscopi toletani. Un caso excepcional de «habitualismo» / The Intellect Agent According to Alphonsi, archiepiscopi toletani. An Exceptional Case of «Habitualism»

Abstract

In this paper we study the conception about the agent intellect of Alfonso, Bishop of Toledo. This thinker criticizes three systems of philosophy: a) The averroism, hypothesis which sustains the identification between the agent intellect with God. b) The potentialism, opinion of those who think that the agent intellect is a potency. c) The nominalism, position of those who defend that there is no real difference between the agent and the possible intellect. This author defends the habitualism, thesis that identifies the agent intellect with an innate habit, concretely, with the habit of first principles.