This article argues that an original debate over the relationship between time and the intellect took place in Northern Italy in the second half of the sixteenth century, which was part of a broader reflection on the temporality of human mental acts. While human intellectual activity was said to be 'above time' during the Middle Ages, Renaissance scholars such as Marcantonio Genua (1491-1563), ...

Imagination can be associated with the innocent capacity to contemplate on either non-existent or absent objects, which for some reason another seem nonexistent in our immediate actual surroundings. It enables us escape confines of instantaneous reality, thereby liberating from subjection surroundings and transferring transient worlds minds, are somewhat cut off actuality. With respect this sug...

mac intyre believes that the history of the western culture and thought is analyzable in two different lines, so that the modern intellect is a free and liberated and thus wandering intellect that has not found its way to a strengthened and dignified thinking, and the pre-modern intellect is a theological one intertwined with excellence and committed to tradition. the pre-modern rational though...