Hobbes, Thomas, "II. Of Imagination", The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 3 (Leviathan), archived from the original on 2011-03-10, retrieved 2011-03-05 and also see De Homine X.
"Before embarking on this study, the reader is asked to absorb a few Greek terms for which there is no English word that would not be imprecise or misleading. Chief among these is NOUS, which refers to the `eye of the heart' and is often translated as mind or intellect. Here we keep the Greek word NOUS throughout. The adjective related to it is NOETIC (noeros)." Orthodox Psychotherapy Section The Knowledge of God according to St. Gregory PalamasArchived 2010-12-10 at the Wayback Machine by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos published by Birth of Theotokos Monastery, Greece (2005) ISBN978-960-7070-27-2
See Moore, Edward, "Plotinus", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, archived from the original on 2019-09-12, retrieved 2011-03-22 and Gerson, Lloyd (2018), "Plotinus", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, archived from the original on 2019-08-02, retrieved 2011-03-22. The direct quote above comes from Moore.
"Intelligence (nous) apprehend each definition (horos meaning "boundary"), which cannot be proved by reasoning". Nicomachean Ethics1142aArchived 2020-08-05 at the Wayback Machine, Rackham translation.
See Moore, Edward, "Plotinus", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, archived from the original on 2019-09-12, retrieved 2011-03-22 and Gerson, Lloyd (2018), "Plotinus", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, archived from the original on 2019-08-02, retrieved 2011-03-22. The direct quote above comes from Moore.
"Intelligence (nous) apprehend each definition (horos meaning "boundary"), which cannot be proved by reasoning". Nicomachean Ethics1142aArchived 2020-08-05 at the Wayback Machine, Rackham translation.
See Moore, Edward, "Plotinus", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, archived from the original on 2019-09-12, retrieved 2011-03-22 and Gerson, Lloyd (2018), "Plotinus", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, archived from the original on 2019-08-02, retrieved 2011-03-22. The direct quote above comes from Moore.
"Before embarking on this study, the reader is asked to absorb a few Greek terms for which there is no English word that would not be imprecise or misleading. Chief among these is NOUS, which refers to the `eye of the heart' and is often translated as mind or intellect. Here we keep the Greek word NOUS throughout. The adjective related to it is NOETIC (noeros)." Orthodox Psychotherapy Section The Knowledge of God according to St. Gregory PalamasArchived 2010-12-10 at the Wayback Machine by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos published by Birth of Theotokos Monastery, Greece (2005) ISBN978-960-7070-27-2
Hobbes, Thomas, "II. Of Imagination", The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, vol. 3 (Leviathan), archived from the original on 2011-03-10, retrieved 2011-03-05 and also see De Homine X.
Several of the terms commonly used in English philosophical contexts come directly from classical languages. Nous itself comes from Ancient Greekνοῦς (nous) or νόος (noos). "Intellect" comes from Latinintellēctus and intellegentia. To describe the activity of this faculty, the word intellection is sometimes used in philosophical contexts, as well as the Greek words noēsis and noeîn (νόησις, νοεῖν).
G.E.H; Sherrard, Philip; Ware, Kallistos (Timothy). The Philokalia, Vol. 4, p. 432
Nous the highest facility in man, through which—provided it is purified—he knows God or the inner essences or principles (q.v.) of created things by means of direct apprehension or spiritual perception. Unlike the dianoia or reason (q.v.), from which it must be carefully distinguished, the intellect does not function by formulating abstract concepts and then arguing on this basis to a conclusion reached through deductive reasoning, but it understands divine truth by means of immediate experience, intuition or 'simple cognition' (the term used by St Isaac the Syrian in his The Ascetical Homilies). The intellect dwells in the 'depths of the soul'; it constitutes the innermost aspect of the heart (St Diadochos, 79, 88: in our translation, vol. i, pp. 280, 287). The intellect is the organ of contemplation (q.v.), the 'eye of the heart' (Makarian Homilies).
