THE GOOD AS SUPRA-COGITATIVE IS ALSO SUPRA-ACTIVE.

6. If the above arguments be worth while, the Good has no place for

thought. What thinks must have its good outside of itself. The

Good, therefore, is not active; for what need to actualize would

actualization have? To say that actualization actualizes, is tautology.

Even if we may be allowed to attribute something to actualizations

which relate to some principle other than themselves, at least the

first actualization to which all other actualizations refer, must be

simply what it is. This actualization is not thought; it has nothing to

think, as it is the First. Besides, that which thinks is not thought,

but what possesses thought. Thus there is duality in what thinks; but

there is no duality in the First.

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