Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: The Triune God: Systematics

Stichwort: Schöpfung - absolute, relative Realität 2 (beide in einer bestimmten Hinsicht); Argumente 1; Subjekt - Relation

Kurzinhalt: 2 Every subject of a real relation is absolute... 6 Among created things there exist those that are absolute in a qualified sense and relative in a qualified sense... 8 Among created things there is nothing that is absolute in every respect.

Textausschnitt: Arguments

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1 A relation is either internal or external. (Fs)

715a For a relation either is or is not so intrinsic to a subject that it cannot cease to be without the subject ceasing to be. (Fs)

2 Every subject of a real relation is absolute. (Fs)

For since a relation is the order of one to another, it is either the order of an absolute to another or it is the order of a relation to another being. But a relation of a relation is only a conceptual being, and the order of a relation to another is a relation of a relation. Therefore, every subject of a real relation is absolute. (Fs)

3 The subject of a real internal relation is not simply absolute. (Fs)

Anything whose essence includes a relation is not simply absolute. But a relation is part of the essence of every subject of an internal relation, and therefore the subject of an internal relation is not simply absolute. (Fs)
4 A real internal relation does not posit in things a reality that is simply relative. (Fs)

Since an internal relation is part of the essence of its subject, it is posited in things by the very positing of its subject; and every subject of a real relation is absolute. (Fs)

5 A real external relation does not posit in things a reality that is simply relative. (Fs)

It is already proven that an external relation does not add to the reality of an internal relation a further reality intrinsic to the subject. (Fs)

6 Among created things there exist those that are absolute in a qualified sense and relative in a qualified sense. (Fs)

Such are the subjects of internal relations. They are absolute inasmuch as they are subjects, and relative inasmuch as they are relations in their very essence: accidents, natures, souls, the metaphysical principles of beings, the subjects of analytic principles having a relative predicate, quantified things, things subject to the laws of nature, organic parts, faculties, habits, and psychological operations. (Fs)

7 Among created things there is nothing that is relative in every respect. (Fs)

If one such did exist, it would be a relation. But a relation is either internal or external, and neither posits in things a reality that is relative in every respect. (Fs)

Also, whatever is real can be affirmed; whatever can be affirmed participates in the formality of the absolute since it already stands outside its causes and in itself; and therefore every relative, inasmuch as it is real, is in some respect absolute. (Fs) (notabene)

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8 Among created things there is nothing that is absolute in every respect. (Fs)

717a What is simply absolute has no real causes, either extrinsic or intrinsic. But that which has no extrinsic causes is not created, and that which has no intrinsic causes is not finite. (Fs)