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See also:INTELLECT (See also:Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, to understand) , the See also:general See also:term for the mind in reference to its capacity for knowing or understanding. It is very vaguely used in See also:common See also:language. A See also:man is described as " intellectual " generally because he is occupied with theory and principles rather than with practice, often with the further implication that his theories are concerned mainly with abstract matters: he is aloof from the See also:world, and especially is a man of training and culture who cares little for the See also:ordinary pleasures of sense. " Intellect " is thus distinguished from " intelligence " by the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of its operations, " intelligence " being used in the See also:practical See also:sphere for readiness to grasp a situation. (The employment of the word as a synonym for " See also:news " is See also:mere journalese; such phrases as " Intelligence See also:Department " in connexion with See also:newspapers and public offices are more justifiable.) In See also:philosophy the "intellect " is contrasted with the senses and the will; it sifts and combines sense-given data, which otherwise would be only momentary, lasting practically only as See also:long as the stimuli continued to operate. It thus includes the cognitive processes, and is the source of all real knowledge. Various attempts have been made to narrow the use of the term, e.g. to the higher regions of knowledge entirely above the region of sense (so See also:Kant), or to conceptual processes; but no agreement has been reached. " Intellection " (i.e. the See also:process as opposed to the capacity) has similarly been narrowed (e.g. by See also:Professor See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward) to the sphere of concepts; other writers, however, give it a much wider meaning. " Intellectualism " is a term given to any See also:system which emphasizes the cognitive See also:function; thus aesthetic intellectualism is that view of See also:aesthetics which subordinates the sensual gratification or the delight in purely formal beauty to what may be called the ideal content.
End of Article: INTELLECT (Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, to understand)
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