nous in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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English
The soul (which is body and spirit together as one thing) vivifies or gives energy to the nous.
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The demiurge or nous is the first sentience, a reflective duality that in the process of perpetual recurrence is man, himself.
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Concerning honor, pleasure, and intelligence (nous) and also every virtue, though they lead to happiness, even if they did not we would still pursue them.
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This includes damaging or vilifying the nous, or simply having a non-functioning noetic and neptic faculty.
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Rather, it was aesthetic, in that nous simply wanted to enjoy the spectacle of its own creation.
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The campaign won for us an enduring sense of national identity based on those iconic traits of mateship, courage, compassion and nous.
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These are energies or noesis as activities of the nous, consciousness.
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Nous as the eye of the whole person (called soul).
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Nous, for him, was a mechanical, efficient cause, not a final cause.
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As nous or consciousness is but energy, activity in force.
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