Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Konversion, Folgen, Wissensstreben,

Kurzinhalt: radikale Konversion, Konsequenzen, explizite Selbstbejahung (self-affirmation), pure desire,

Textausschnitt: () Finally, Lonergan in the same notes describes the function of radical intellectual conversion. First, it is a bludgeon against obscurantism, stupidity, silliness. Psychologically, it pulls one out of the flow of percepts, the memories and anticipations added to data that come from the orientation of efficiently and economically dealing with one's environment. It pulls one out of what Lonergan will later call 'one's own little world. It pulls one out of the attitude that the world of sense is the criterion of reality; it pulls one away from deprecatory remarks about the 'bloodless ballet of categories'; it pulls one away from spontaneous utilitarianism and pragmatism. Positively, the function of radical intellectual conversion is to head us for 'whatever is intelligently conceived and reasonably affirmed.' It is related to Aquinas' 'natural desire to see God.'
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In Insight all of these acts that constitute the content of the self-affirmation of the knower flow from the pure desire to know. To the extent that the pure desire to know is operative, it issues in these acts and this content of self-affirmation. In effect, it is what the 1951 notes call 'radical intellectual conversion': making explicit and deliberate the pure desire to know as the way of turning away from other inhibiting and reinforcing desires toward 'whatever is intelligently conceived and reasonably affirmed.