Autor: Tekippe, Terry J.

Buch: What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight?

Titel: What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight?

Stichwort: Gott, Idee, Definition, geistig (spiritual), Seinsentfaltungen

Kurzinhalt: Idee Gottes: eins, einfach, unabhängig, vollkommen, unbegrenzt, geistig, Entfaltungen der Einsicht; Identität: Urteil, Einsicht; Wissen: Dualität, Einheit, Aristoteles: Self-thinking Thought

Textausschnitt: () As an approach to the understanding of God, postulate an insight adequate to being.
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This insight will be one.
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The insight adequate to being will be simple.
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The insight adequate to being will also be independent.
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The insight adequate to being will be unlimited.
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The unlimited insight will be spiritual () timeless () self-explanatory () judgment
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... the unlimited insight is judgment as well as insight.
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Here the difference of cognitional theories becomes significant. In the myth of knowing as looking, knowing is an ultimate duality, including the looker and the looked-at.
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The question is answered by pointing out that, if there are any intelligibles other than the Primary Intelligible, the Primary Insight understands them by understanding the Primary Intelligible. In other words, in understanding itself the Primary Insight understands also the various ways in which it may be reflected in other intelligibles.