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Often appears with: the problem of evil and theodicy · separate substances · reason and the intellect · passive intellect · active intellect
Usually: reflection (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
Aquinas explains Averroes’ claim that humans can reach knowledge of separate substances by becoming united with the active intellect, while noting differing views on how the passive intellect would participate in that happiness.
substances which do not fall under sense and imagination, cannot first and *per se* be known by us, according to the mode of knowledge which experience proves us to have. Nevertheless Averroes (Comment. De Anima iii) teaches that in this present life man can in the end arrive at the knowledge of separate substances by being coupled or united to some separate substance, which he calls the "active intellect," and whic…