 Some Thomist scholars have been reluctant to adopt Maritain’s development of Aquinas’ notion of ‘knowledge by connaturality’, preferring instead to speak of “knowledge relative to inclination” (Dewan 2010). Yet others have argued that this development is of far-reaching significance, as Maritain’s notion of the intuition of being led him, in the years following the publication of The Degrees of Knowledge, to recognise a greater role to be played by “the unconscious and preconscious life of the mind” (The Range of Reason, 1948 [1952: 80]; Arraj 2006). 