Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: The Triune God: Systematics

Stichwort: Das natürliches Verlangen d. Intellekts 4 (desiderio intellectus, appetitus); Einwand 2: Glückseligkeit (beatitudo) als Geschuldetheit d. Natur?; vollkommene - unvollkommene G.; indirektes - direktes Verlangen d. Schau Gottes

Kurzinhalt: To desire implicitly and indirectly the vision of God inasmuch as the intellect tends to being is one thing; but it is quite another thing to want to see God, for this would be a specifically supernatural act specified by an absolutely supernatural ...

Textausschnitt: 655e A second objector states: This natural desire results in an exigency for the vision of God. Without beatitude, something owed to nature is denied it; unless the desire is satisfied, there is no beatitude; and without the vision of God, the desire remains unsatisfied. (Fs)

Kommentar (04/11/10): Lat. Text zu "Without beatitude ..." bringt Klarheit: Nam nisi datur beatitudo, non solvitum debitum naturae.

To this objection we make the following reply. Whether without imperfect beatitude nature is denied something owed to it is a question we may leave aside here; but we deny that nature is denied what is its due if it is not granted perfect beatitude; for 'perfect beatitude is natural to God alone' (Summa theologiae, 1, q. 62, a. 4). For the distinction between perfect and imperfect beatitude, see ibid. 1-2, q. 5, a. 5; q. 3, a. 6. (Fs)

655f We grant that if this desire is unsatisfied there is no perfect beatitude; but we deny that if this desire is unsatisfied there would be no imperfect beatitude. See Summa theologiae, 1-2, q. 3, a. 8. On the constant opinion of theologians on this point from the Middle Ages down to the middle of the seventeenth century, see E. Elter, 'De naturali hominis beatitudine ad mentem Scholae antiquioris,' Gregorianum 9 (1928) 269-306. (Fs)

657a The objector rejoins: Therefore naturally speaking the blessed would be unhappy. (Fs)

In reply, we deny that naturally speaking the blessed would not have everything they want. We concede, however, that they would not have everything that the divine omnipotence could bestow upon them. (Fs)

657b To desire implicitly and indirectly the vision of God inasmuch as the intellect tends to being is one thing; but it is quite another thing to want to see God, for this would be a specifically supernatural act specified by an absolutely supernatural object. Such an act would not exist in a possible order of reality in which no specifically supernatural act occurs. (Fs)