Since we are human beings, then, we have to start with what we know in order to get our bearings. That means the Bible and divine revelation, of course. But it also means the realm of the senses, and here Aristotle points the way. “As Aristotle himself shows,” Aquinas writes in the Summa Contra Gentiles, “man’s ultimate happiness consists of seeking the knowledge of truth” through reason.24 Then as we move forward, we discover that truths human and divine, the objects of reason and those of faith, actually reinforce each other. They don’t form parallel tracks, as Averroës claimed. They
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