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Happiness, therefore, consists in the combination of dianoetic and ethical virtues.

But the aim is after all the life of the intellect, and the "dianoetic" virtues are superior to the practical.

But dianoetic forms or ideas imitate the intellectual, which have a prior subsistence, render the order of soul similar to the intellectual order, and comprehend all things in a secondary degree.

These intellectual virtues are called by Aristotle dianoetic.

The dianoetic virtues are the higher, because in them man's special function alone is in operation, and also because the thinking man most resembles God, whose life is a life of pure thought.