Autor: Tekippe, Terry J.

Buch: What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight?

Titel: What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight?

Stichwort: Metaphysik, Moral, Gut, Streben, Habitus

Kurzinhalt: Dualität des Strebens, Moralität als Anwendung des Wissens auf das Tun; Aristoteles, Plato, Paulus; Einübung in Tugend, desire for the god, Maßstab: Vernünftigkeit; Hedonismus

Textausschnitt: () The human good, then, is the object of human desire.
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Judgment Affirmable good - good of value
Insight Intelligible good - good of order
Experience Experiential good - felt good
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Not surprisingly, the two moralities diverge. There are times when the pleasurable action is not a reasonable one, and there are also times when the reasonable action requires the endurance of labor, hardship, and pain.
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Growth in moral maturity, then, is largely a training in virtuous habits; and teaching morality will be largely a matter of teaching virtue.
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Everything said so far may be summarized in the major precept of morality, Do good and avoid evil, where good is the truly reasonable action, and evil is the unreasonable action. That may seem cruelly general, to the point of being almost useless. But as the inner journey yields in metaphysics only the general structure of the known, without determining any particulars, so the present account of morality must be content with this general precept.