Stichwort: Phantasma

Autor, Quelle: Lonergan, Bernard J.F., The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: Intellectus agens, possibilis - phantasma

Index: Intellectus agens: Staunen -> phantasma -> intellectus possibilis -> Wort

Kurzinhalt: First, corporeal and individual matter is made known through the senses. Second, from the agent intellect a wondering arises that asks, 'What is it?' or 'Why is it so?' Third, a phantasm is formed ...

Text: 203f But the true is one thing, and sufficient evidence is another; so the act by which evidence is grasped as sufficient is different from the act by which the true is affirmed and the false is denied. It is quite clear that these two acts are connected to each other by an intellectual emanation, for we are able to affirm the true because we have grasped evidence as sufficient.1 Therefore, as regards the second operation of intellect, by which we respond to the question, Is it? one must distinguish very carefully between the act of understanding by which the sufficiency of evidence is grasped and the act of affirming the true, which is a word uttered within. (Fs)

205a With respect to the first operation of intellect,2 the object that moves, which is external, is the quiddity or nature existing in corporeal matter. First, corporeal and individual matter is made known through the senses. Second, from the agent intellect a wondering arises that asks, 'What is it?' or 'Why is it so?' Third, a phantasm is formed in which the intelligible that is to be grasped in sensible data becomes more clearly manifest in the sensible data themselves. Fourth, the possible intellect, directed to the phantasm, grasps in the phantasm an intelligible, a quiddity, or another cause. Fifth, the possible intellect, since it now actually understands the quiddity of a reality, or another cause, utters a simple inner word, which is the definition of the reality through its quiddity or through another cause. (Fs) (notabene)