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    Acts of volition and choice must be made objects of systematic investigation.

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    • 1.Perfection of the human intellect cannot be attained by nature, soul, and intellect alone.
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    • 2.Acts generated by volition and choice depend on the practical intellect and are necessary for attaining perfection.
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    • 3.Whatever is necessary for attaining human perfection must be investigated.
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    • 1.Systematic investigation presupposes stable, universal categories, but volitional acts are irreducibly particular and context-dependent.
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    • 2.Aristotle himself held that practical wisdom (phronesis) resists reduction to theoretical science, operating through perception of particulars rather than systematic rules.
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    • 3.What cannot be universalized without distortion should not be made the object of systematic scientific inquiry.
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    • 1.Al-Ghazali argued that the inner determinants of volition are ultimately traceable to divine causation, rendering human systematic investigation of choice epistemically incomplete.
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    • 2.If the ultimate causes of volitional acts exceed human cognitive access, then systematic investigation yields only proximate descriptions, not genuine understanding.
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    The result of the enquiry undertaken leads to the conclusion that human nature, the human soul, and the capabilities and the acts of these two, just like the capabilities of the practical intellect, are all finalized with respect to the perfection of the human intellect. Nature, the soul, and the human intellect are, however, insufficient to attain perfection and it is not possible to leave out of consideration the acts generated by volition and choice which depend on the practical intellect. Fo
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    Whatever is necessary for attaining human perfection must be investigated.
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