Stichwort: already-out-there-now-real

Autor, Quelle: Lonergan, C2

Titel: already-out-there-now-real: Lonergan - Deway

Index: Bestimmung (in Abgrenzung von Deway): already-out-there-now-real

Kurzinhalt: It's 'already'-prior to any questions; 'out'-extroverted consciousness; 'there'-spatial sense organs have spatial objects; 'now'-the time of the observer is the time of the observed; 'real'-well, that's what we mean by reality, ...

Text: 218d "Now the criteria, with regard to the two worlds, are totally different. The taken-for-granted is the already-out-there-now-real. It's 'already'-prior to any questions; 'out'-extroverted consciousness; 'there'-spatial sense organs have spatial objects; 'now'-the time of the observer is the time of the observed; 'real'-well, that's what we mean by reality, we're defining it. But you can have an entirely different world-the world mediated by meaning-the world that is most known through belief. Ninety-eight per cent of what a genius knows, he believes. It isn't personally independently acquired knowledge. Human knowledge is an acquisition that goes on over centuries and centuries, and if we want to accept nothing, that we don't find out for ourselves, we revert to the palaeozoic age. At that period they found out for themselves everything they knew. (Fs)


219a "That world, mediated by meaning, is what most of us mean by the real world. And the criteria for knowing it, for being objective there, are the criteria of being attentive, of being intelligent, being reasonable, being responsible. An entirely different set of criteria. Now those two can be confused. The naive realist knows the world mediated by meaning. But he knows it by taking a look. The naive idealist says 'esse est percipi.' Esse-it is-the affirmation of reality, in the world mediated by meaning, is the percipi-the taking a look. The rigorist empiricist eliminates from the world mediated by meaning everything that isn't in the world you take for granted. The critical idealist-he doesn't attend to data and understand and judge. He sees the appearances of things in themselves that you can't know but can talk about by using a limiting concept. He adds to these appearances the categories of understanding and the ideals of reason. So he has valid knowledge on this side, and the impossibility of knowledge on the other. His unconditioned at one stage is the totality of conditio ns -and it was Hegel who conceived the universe as the totality of conditions. He wanted to put movement within logic. Method very much is the ongoing process, and logic regards the cross-sections at any moment. So logic is within method."