The condition of having attained an assimilated intellect constitutes natural human happiness, realizing all the aspirations of the human condition and human culture.
Alongside the intellect, heart, soul and spirit the secret constitutes the human communication center with the divine; it is God's throne in our being and is, sine qua non, the divine trace in the human body.
Al-Farabi describes the purpose of active intellect as "true and supreme happiness " (PR, N1 38), and further clarifies that the human being can have this happiness "only when the active intellect first gives the first intelligibles, which constitute the primary knowledge…" (PR, N1 35).
The definition can therefore be read, either as stating that attributes are what the intellect perceives of substance as constituting its actual essence, or that attributes are what the intellect perceives only as if they are what constitute the essence but are not what in fact constitutes it or them.
The objectivists, by and large, instead claim that it is the infinite intellect that perceives the attribute as in fact constituting the essence of substance.
To gauge the mood of the world of intellect and fashion, of French salons or of such institutions as the Royal Society, it is essential to understand what constituted the crisis in the European mind of the late 17th century.
Those constituted the positives.
These constitute the feet.
Occasionally, though, you have what Nietzsche considered "something very rare but a thing to take delight in: a man with a finely constituted intellect who has the character, the inclinations and also the experiences appropriate to such an intellect".
All things, with the sole exception of God, are constituted through the union of the two, the intellect no less than corporeal substance.
