Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Kant, Grundirrtum, Lonergan, Urteil, synthetisch, spiritual apprehension

Kurzinhalt: Kants Grundfehler = naiver Realismus der Scholastik; apprehension; ästhetische, intellektuelle Freude, synthetische Urteile a priori,

Textausschnitt: () 'Kant suffered from the obsession that the only possible justification was some sort of spiritual apprehension of the thing-in-itself - a presentation and not a mere understanding of the object. Since such a presentation was not to be had ...
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In other words, Kant's basic error was the same as that of the naive realism of the scholastics: an understanding of understanding as some kind of 'spiritual apprehension of the thing-in-itself.'
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Just as aesthetic pleasure accompanies apprehension and is preceded by curiosity, so understanding is preceded by wonder and is accompanied by its own peculiar subjective satisfaction.
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Lonergan examines the Kantian synthetic a priori judgments. What is the source of the judgment that every contingent being must have a cause? Why must every contingent being have a cause? Precisely because otherwise its existence could not be understood; it would have no sufficient reason for its existence. It seems that the principle of sufficient reason is utterly central to Lonergan's thought at this point.