The agent intellect according to Labelle and Rahner

Abstract

This paper discusses the treatment of the agent intellect, an Aristotelian discovery, on the part of two 20th century thinkers, H.I. Labelle and K. Rahner. While Labelle, like Scotus, reduces the agent intellect to the possible, and as Suárez and Kant indicates that reason activates itself ‘spontaneously’, Rahner, forces the Thomist version on the agent intellect in order to reconcile it with the Kantian one in the sense of the two Labellian theses.