Theory of FORMS / IDEAS

Originally a way of understanding language; becomes a form of metaphysics

Distinction Between NOUS / DIANOIA
Contemplative Faculty / Reasoning Brain

NOESIS: Direct apprehension; intuitive comprehension

Aristotle: says of noesis that it is a participation in the object apprehended; subject-object relationship vanishes

Christians will later say PRAYER is an act of the NOUS; (not that prayer is act of INTELLECT in modern sense); rather an exercise of the contemplative faculty

DIANOESIS: Reasoning; sequential; used in Euclidean geometry

 CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE

Highest Life for BOTH Plato and Aristotle