Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Collection: Papers bei B. Lonergan

Titel: Collection: Papers bei B. Lonergan

Stichwort: Urteil als Maßstab der Objektivität

Kurzinhalt: First, then, is this universe of being the real world? There is one standard, one criterion, one absolute, and that is true judgment

Textausschnitt: Knowledge of Concrete, Actual Existence

147d My third topic had to do with the objective universe of being. According to Insight this universe is to be known by the totality of true judgments and it is not to be known humanly without true judgments. Four main questions arise. First, is this universe of being the real world? Secondly, is it concrete? Thirdly, is it the actually existing universe, or merely an essentialist universe? Fourthly, how can concrete, actual existence be known on the account of knowledge offered by Insight? First, then, is this universe of being the real world? e Clearly, if by the real world one means what is to be known by the totality of true judgments and not without true judgments, then by definition the universe of being and the real world are identical in all respects. However, it frequently happens that the expression, the real world, is employed in quite a different sense. In this sense each of us lives in a real world of his own.f Its contents are determined by his Sorge, by his interests and concerns, by the orientation of his living, by the unconscious horizong g that blocks from his view the rest of reality. To each of us his own private real world is very real indeed. Spontaneously it lays claim to being the one real world, the standard, the criterion, the absolute, by which everything is judged, measured, evaluated. That claim, I should insist, is not to be admitted. There is one standard, one criterion, one absolute, and that is true judgment. Insofar as one's private real world does not meet that standard, it is some dubious product of animal faith h and human error. On the other hand, insofar as one's private real world is submitted constantly and sedulously to the corrections made by true judgment, necessarily it is brought into conformity with the universe of being. (Fs) (notabene)