nous
IPA: nˈus
noun
- (philosophy) The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional
- In Neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation.
- Common sense; practical intelligence.
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Examples of "nous" in Sentences
- Again the nous made of a substance.
- This is intuitively done by the nous.
- Mankind's nous is the demiurge by design.
- The Greek word for the this would be nous.
- Nous is not a part of the original mixture.
- Noesis are all of the activities of the nous.
- The noesis is the activities of the nous or spirit.
- The creation of the nous was by the will of the one.
- In the Valentinian system, Nous is the first male Aeon.
- Its relation to the nous is the same as that of the nous to the One.
- It is of all that is comprehended under the word nous, the understanding and the heart, that this vanity is predicated.
- According to Plotinus, nous is the highest sphere accessible to the human mind and thus the "objective" of contemplation.
- Montluc -- "_avant nous ces envies ont regne_, _et regneront encore apres nous_, _si Dieu ne nous voulait tous refondre_."
- The term nous, or mind, was commonly given to this second person, but it was said that this nous was the word or reason of the first person.
- In Aristotle, phantasia is what comes between aisthesis and nous, that is, the end product of sensation and the start of intellectual activity.
- I am talking about the part of us that grows with spiritual development, called the nous by the ancient Christian fathers, the "psychic being" in Sri Aurobindo's yoga.
- For these ` ` infinite, self powerful, and unmixed '' particles are imbued with, and, indeed, themselves constitute, what Anaxagoras terms nous, a word which the modern translator has usually paraphrased as ` ` mind. ''
- Nous _ne savons pas ce que ces causes sont en elles-mêmes_, et la raison nous défend de chercher à le connaître: mais il est bien évident _à priori_, qu’_elles ne sont pas en elles-mêmes ce quelles sont par rapport à nous_, puisque la présence du sujet modifie nécessairement leur action.
- Nous _ne savons pas ce que ces causes sont en elles-mêmes_, et la raison nous défend de chercher à le connaître: mais il est bien évident _à priori_, qu’_elles ne sont pas en elles-mêmes ce qu’elles sont par rapport à nous_, puisque la présence du sujet modifie nécessairement leur action.
- In a 1999 essay titled “Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence (By Which We Do Not Mean Nous)” (in Greek philosophy the term nous denotes the highest form of rationality), Shulsky and Schmitt, two neocons, argue that Strauss’s idea of hidden meaning “alerts one to the possibility that political life may be closely linked to deception.
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