Thinking in the moment. " An Arab-Latin reading of Aristotle, Physics VII, 3 "

The object of the intervention is the instantaneous advent of human thought. I study this in Averroes, who derives from Aristotle's Physics VII, 3 the idea that thought arises in the intellect as a relation as soon as something else - images, in particular - presents itself under the requisite conditions. The aim is to explain this thesis, which overturns a common conception of mental processes, and to situate it both upstream (in its dependence on the Arab Alexander of Aphrodite) and downstream (in its influence on Scholasticism). In doing so, we come across some of the "intrigues" of A. de Libera'sArchéologie du sujet.