Abstract
It is well known that Plotinus' doctrine of Intellect owes much to Aristotle and his followers, in particular Alexander of Aphrodisias. Aristotle and Alexander also speak of God or active intellect as thinking itself and insist on identity of divine mind with its objects of thought. The divine intellect is essentially an act of thinking and object of its thought exists in this act. Since Intellect and its objects are identical, it follows trivially that intellect thinks itself when it thinks its object. Plotinus argues in similar way for identification of intelligibles with Intellect. Plotinus' demand that the thought that it itself is Good must be present to Good, if it were to have self-knowledge, is quite telling. It shows that he conceives self-thought as including awareness that subject of thought is what thought portrays. Keywords: Alexander; Aristotle; divine intellect; God; Plotinus
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