Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Verstehen, Aristoteles, Thomas, Lonergan

Kurzinhalt: Verstehen d. Verstehens, Aristoteles: Grundfragen (ti esti, dia ti); Verstehen vor Begriffsbildung, inneres Wort, emanatio intelligibilis, Kreis

Textausschnitt: () Aristotle's basic thesis was the objective reality of what is known by understanding: it was a common sense position inasmuch as common sense always assumes that to be so; but it was not a common sense position inasmuch ... for the denial of soul today is really the denial of the intelligible, the denial that understanding, knowing a cause, is knowing anything real.
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Lonergan's interest in the dynamism of consciousness led him to ask how that dynamism is present in Aquinas.
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All this takes place prior to words, even the 'inner words' that are concepts. Concepts and definitions proceed from acts of insight. 'Because the act of understanding-the intelligere proprie-is prior to, and cause of, conceptualization, any attempt to fix the act of understanding, except by way of introspective description, involves its own partial failure; for any such attempt is expression, and expression is no longer understanding and already concept.' Thus, one of Lonergan's perennial examples, the definition of a circle is a set of interrelated concepts rooted in an insight into an image.