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.
As a characteristic of the practical intellect, art is not a speculative or a theoretical activity; it aims not just at knowing, but at doing.
For Maritain, art is "a virtue of the practical intellect that aims at making" (Art and Scholasticism, p. 13; Creative Intuition, p. 49); it is, then, a virtue that is found in artisans and artists alike.
Since the goal of practical reason is action not knowledge, the truth attained by the intellect must be caused by its conformity to right desire.
In private, the general impression of him is that of a first-rate practical intellect, with "no nonsense" about him.
Since activities such as thinking and desiring are different sorts of activities, most theorists thought of their corresponding powers, the (practical) intellect and the will, as separate.
This affective reaction accompanies the imaginative faculty as well as the practical intellect, which chooses its course of action accordingly.
One of them is particularly interesting because Philip uses the doctrine of the transcendentals to establish his conclusion that the practical intellect and will are one and the same power.
Bacon notes that these sciences are active and operative but concerned "…with artificial and natural works which refer to the speculative intellect, and they are not concerned with those things which refer to the practical intellect, which is called practical because it exercises operations of good and evil" ([RBMP], 3).
