Active Mind and Practical Syllogism

Aristotle' contrast of Active Mind vs. Passive Mind is that of created particulars vs. received particulars, or, in other words, Knowledge from Deduction vs. Knowledge from observation, e. g. that Socrates is mortal as a conclusion from the proposition that all men are mortal vs. watching him die.  So, Mind is Active only to the extent that there exists at least one non-empirical Major Premise.  And, for such to exist, it can only be discovered in Reflection, i. e. in the self-contemplation of Mind, perhaps aka 'Intuition', a term that he occasionally uses.  Now, he recognizes that a Syllogism can be either Theoretical or Practical, though he does not seem to go so far as Spinoza or Kant in recognizing the existence of Practical Particular propositions derived purely from Reflection.  Accordingly, his concept of Active Mind has a lesser extent than do theirs.  Likewise, he cannot recognize that Active Mind is fundamentally Practical, as is Reflection, from which passive Contemplation is abstracted.