Avicenna [Ibn Sīnā]

in Albert the Great, Super Porphyrium 2.3, p. 24.56-57

Occurrence of the quotation formula
Avicenna, p. 24.56
Paraphrase Neutral
From Averroes
Et illud Avicennae dictum, quod ‘intellectus in formis agit universalitatem’.

Quoted text(s)

  • F. S. CRAWFORD ed., Averrois Cordubensis Commentarium magnum in Aristotelis De Anima libros, The Mediaeval Academy of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1953., L.I, text. comm. 8, p.12.25-26
    sed intellectus est qui agit in eis universalitatem

References in current editions

  • AVICENNA LATINUS, Liber de Philosophia prima sive Scientia divina, V-X. Édition critique par S. VAN RIET. Introduction par G. VERBEKE, Peeters-Brill, Louvain-Leiden 1980, V, 1, p. 237, v. 28sqq
  • AVICENNA LATINUS, Liber de Philosophia prima sive Scientia divina, V-X. Édition critique par S. VAN RIET. Introduction par G. VERBEKE, Peeters-Brill, Louvain-Leiden 1980, V, 2, p.239.71
  • AVICENNA LATINUS, Liber de Philosophia prima sive Scientia divina, V-X. Édition critique par S. VAN RIET. Introduction par G. VERBEKE, Peeters-Brill, Louvain-Leiden 1980 , V, 2, p. 241.9-10
Notes
Kindly note that the references provided in the critical edition are not irrelevant to the topic. However, the similarity between Albert's and Avorroes' words is striking.