On reason and intellect
Two basic principles: ratio and intellectus. Ratio is ‘reasoning’ properly so called, aimed at the acquisition of a particular ‘result’. Intellectus, on the other hand, is the contemplative gaze upon being as an end in, of, and for itself. The right relation between intellect and its existential object: this is the meaning of ‘truth’.
Intellection is pri…
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