Stichwort: Potenz

Autor, Quelle: Flanagan, Mehrere Autoren: Lonergan Workshop, Volume 8

Titel: Potenz - Spannung von Gegensätzen

Index: Potenz als Spannung von Gegensätzen (Lonergan); 2 Bedeutungen

Kurzinhalt: Lonergan speaks of potency as a "tension of opposites" since it both grounds the present boundaries of you and your world and also offers an invitation for you to move beyond these boundaries.

Text: 86c Chapter fifteen is entitled "Elements of Metaphysics," and I wish to focus on the element of potency. Potency has two meanings. It may be understood as a limit or boundary to knowing or being, but it also has a more dynamic meaning as a boundary that is to be transformed and eventually transcended. This second meaning grounds both your own development as a knower and the way your own development both continues and explains the unfolding order of this universe. (Fs)

86d Lonergan speaks of potency as a "tension of opposites" since it both grounds the present boundaries of you and your world and also offers an invitation for you to move beyond these boundaries. For Lonergan, you cannot be truly yourself-an authentic person-unless you consciously admit your own unrealized potential to transcend continuously the present limits of your past achievements. Similarly, the universe as a whole is what it is and is not yet what it is tending to become. From molecules, up to and including people, everything is and is not yet. Turning back now to chapter one, let us reinterpret from the viewpoint of the later chapters certain key issues. (Fs) (notabene)

Stichwort: Potenz

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

Titel: Potenz - Gott

Index: Gott - Potenz: ad extra (Schöpfung), ad intra

Kurzinhalt: Potency is either predicated of God only according to our way of signifying or it is predicated really.

Text: 359c Potency is either predicated of God only according to our way of signifying or it is predicated really. It is predicated only according to our way of signifying when we distinguish between the potency and the act, whether of existing or of understanding or of affirming or of willing or, in general, between the perfectible and the perfection.1 But it is predicated really according to the fact that internally to God one person proceeds from another, or that externally creation proceeds from God.2 It is predicated externally as a potency to opposites, but internally inasmuch as it is truly affirmed that what necessarily is can be.3 As predicated internally, it is the potency to generate or to spirate. Inasmuch as potency is a principle, it refers directly to the divine essence. Inasmuch as the potency to generate or to spirate refers to something proper, it indirectly implies a relation.4 Indeed, inasmuch as the potency to generate is for generating, paternity is indirectly implied; but inasmuch as it is the potency for something to be generated, filiation is indirectly implied. The potency of spirating is similarly distinguished in an active and a passive sense.5 (Fs) (notabene)

Stichwort: Potenz

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

Titel: Potenzen: akzidentell, essentiell, oboediential

Index: Potenzen: akzidentell, essentiell, oboediential

Kurzinhalt: One kind of potency is the potency of that which already possesses a form or a habit so that, whenever it wills, it can immediately go into operation. This potency, which is called second or accidental potency, is found both in human beings who have ...

Text: 637d Let us go now to another part of the analogy. As the divine intellect is to being as the act of all being, so the created intellect is to all being as potency. But there are several different kinds of potency. (Fs; tblStw: Potenz)

639a One kind of potency is the potency of that which already possesses a form or a habit so that, whenever it wills, it can immediately go into operation. This potency, which is called second or accidental potency, is found both in human beings who have acquired some knowledge and in angelic beings inasmuch as through species connatural to them they can know other angels and material reality as well. (Fs) (notabene)

639b A second kind of potency is that of one who does not possess a form or habit but yet can receive such a form through some created agent. This potency, which is called first or essential potency, is found in persons who have not yet acquired knowledge but are capable of doing so. (Fs) (notabene)

639c A third kind of potency is that of one who possesses neither a form nor a habit and cannot be brought to becoming informed through any created agency. This is obediential potency, which only the power of God can actuate (Summa theologiae, 3, q. 11, a. 1 c), and is found in all created intellects with respect to knowing all being (ibid. q. 9, a. 2, ad 3m). For the totality of being is known by an intellect only if God is known by his essence; but God is known by his essence only if God himself unites with a created intellect as an intelligible species (ibid. 1, q. 12, aa. 4 and 5). This, of course, is a gift of God that exceeds the scope or proportion of any finite substance and so is absolutely supernatural. (Fs) (notabene)