The ontological conjunction presupposes a union of unique intellect and human being in a way that the intellect becomes a human faculty (Etzwiler 1971, 266 269).
Their marriage was an extraordinary love match, an inspiring and touching union of restless intellects and imaginations.
Without caliphal encouragement Averroës could hardly have persisted all his life in his fight for philosophy against the theologians, as reflected in his Commentary on Plato's Republic, in such works as the Faṣl al-Maḳāl and Tahāfut al-Tahāfut, and in original philosophical treatises (e.g., about the union of the active intellect with the human intellect).
Nonetheless, Neoplatonists of religious traditions did think that the rational soul's union with the realm of intellect was possible.
All things, with the sole exception of God, are constituted through the union of the two, the intellect no less than corporeal substance.
This is a remarkable ambition, but also an eminently sensible one: the union of art and sensation, intellect and feeling, mass appeal and aesthetic refinement is something the movies are uniquely able to promise, and occasionally, when a filmmaker possesses the right mixture of calculation and compassion, able to deliver.
He had held that the (material) intellect does not know singulars through universal species, but thanks to the intentional representation of a given singular present in the elementary thought and accessible to the intellect only at the moment of the active union of a single individual man with the material and active intellects in the soul.
"There might be a misconception of intellect".
Gossip is the acceptable face of intellect".
When an individual's philosophical conversion is complete and he has become Intellect, he can rise to that mystical union in which the One manifests his continual presence, carried on the surging current of the impulse of return to the source (in its strongest and final flow), the pure love of Intellect for the Good from which it immediately springs.
