Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: Science, existentialists; intellectual pattern, pure reason = speculative intellect

Kurzinhalt: If your attainments in the intellectual pattern of experience are the sort of thing that you can live out, then you are being an intelligent and rational man.

Textausschnitt: If through the intellectual pattern of experience one arrives at the unconditioned, one arrives at truth and being, and that is all that can be demanded. That is the formulation, concretely, of what is meant by speculative intellect or pure reason. If your attainments in the intellectual pattern of experience are the sort of thing that you can live out, then you are being an intelligent and rational man. You are living concretely up to the level of what you know. This is the basis of the autonomy of spirit. It is the ideal of the ethical man. Religion simply places the ethical man within the broader context of God, his creator and judge, and of human history as the field within which he exercises his autonomy. So I do not believe there is anything more than an apparent argument from group theory or from the tendencies of people like Bergson, or from idealists like Croce, to belittle science and consider it as merely practical. (187f; Fs)