2007-01-24 00:18:44 · 6 answers · asked by oscar c 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i give you ali ibn abi talib's view on the intellect:
"A person's intellect becomes apparent through his dealings, and a man's character is known by the way he exercises authority.
The intellect is a king and characteristics are its subjects, so if it is weak in governing them, disorder takes place.
The intellect is better than desire, for the intellect makes you a king over your destiny, and desire makes you a slave of your destiny.
The intellect is a natural disposition which learns from experience.
The intellect is what arrives at what is correct through reasoning, and recognizes what has not yet happened through what has already taken place.
Use your intellect to understand something when you hear about it-the intellect that examines, that is, and not just the intellect that repeats what it hears, for surely there are many who repeat the knowledge that they hear, and there are few who examine it.
The one who has an intellect longs to be like the righteous people so that he can be of one of them, and he loves them so that he can be united with them in his love, even if he falls short in emulating their actions.
The one who has an intellect does not openly display it except in one of two situations: when he is furthest away from seeking something in the world, and when he is furthest away from abandoning it.
Surely hated adversity has final objectives in which it will inevitably end, so the one who has an intellect should try to sleep over it until this happens, for surely any attempt to stop it before it has come to an end will only intensify that hated diversity even more.
The first opinion of the person of intellect is the last opinion of an ignorant person.
The one who has an intellect finds harshness of life amongst persons of intellect more agreeable than a life of ease amongst the foolish".
2007-01-24 02:31:21 · answer #1 · answered by DT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The function of the intellect is to learn, not to know. Intellect is constant learning; for all changes. What we think we know is only what we have learned until we learn more, or something else.
If what your saying is that a soul incarnates, then the reason might as well be to aquire the ability to learn something; which cannot get without the intellect, because that's what it does; it learns.
I think it's more like a deal or agreement and not about governing, not about dominion or ruling over the other.
2007-01-24 12:03:08 · answer #2 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is clearly a sophism.
You have three sentences. One and three are contradictory (If soul is intellect, how can intellect govern soul, which it is ?), and the second has nothing to do with them at all because they express a belief -not a fact- that is uncorrelated.
2007-01-24 08:25:44 · answer #3 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your soul is a point of infinite energy in the universe. Intellect guides this energy when we leave this world to the vast consciousness of the universe. A ghost has unfinished business in the present time continuum.
2007-01-24 09:13:10 · answer #4 · answered by USN Retired 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You equate soul and intellect. Therefore how can one govern the other whether present or departed?
2007-01-24 08:41:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hmm,,
kind of
2007-01-24 08:23:29 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋