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    The divine intellect illumines the human intellect during... — Carmelics
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    The divine intellect illumines the human intellect during the act of intellection

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    • 1.Just as the sun supplies light to the eye, the divine intellect is the source of illumination for the human intellect
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    • 2.The eye is illumined by means of light, establishing a relationship between the eye, the object seen, and the intervening space
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    • 1.The sun-eye analogy is disanalogous: light is a physical medium, but intellection operates without a spatial medium between intellect and object.
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    • 2.Aquinas argues in Summa Theologiae I q.79 that the agent intellect is an intrinsic faculty of the human soul, not a participation in divine light during discrete acts.
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    • 3.If illumination is continuous and universal, it cannot explain the empirical variability in human intellectual achievement across individuals and circumstances.
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    • 1.Aristotle's De Anima locates intellection in the soul's own active intellect, requiring no external divine illumination to actualize concepts.
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    • 2.If the divine intellect were necessary for each act of intellection, human cognitive errors and ignorance would implicate God in epistemic failure.
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    Central to the unfolding argument in the Dialoghi is the concept of ocular power (forza oculare). In the first dialogue, Judah describes two modes of apprehending spiritual matters. The first is through the faculty of sight and the second through the intellect.[34] For the eye, like the intellect, is illumined by means of light, thereby establishing a relationship between the eye, the object seen, and the space that separates them.[35] Just as the sun supplies light to the eye, the divine
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