Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Sein, Objekt, Objektivität, Wissensstreben, Konversion

Kurzinhalt: Sein <-> Objekt: äquivalent, Urteil, Brücke, distinctio, radikale Konversion; Sein: Ding - Ich; Ich-Ding-Unterscheidung -> Sein

Textausschnitt: () The pure notion of being is the pure desire to know inasmuch as it heads towards the absolutely universal and the absolutely concrete: ...
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As Lonergan's early intellectual conversion was rooted in an understanding of the real distinction of essence and existence, so here he affirms the distinction within being of essence and existence:
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Objectivity is rooted in the pure desire to know issuing in radical intellectual conversion:
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an object is what is known in true judgment; hence 'object' and 'being' are equivalent terms. Lonergan rejects 'the problem of the bridge,' of getting from 'in here' to 'out there' as a false conception of the objectivity of human knowing:
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Object is being; but differentiation of being from within; hence 'I' and 'thing' are known through differentiating 'being.'
Knowledge of real subject, real object, and real distinction is a set of judgments.
'I am' 'It is' 'I am not it' 'I make these judgments.'
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As he had affirmed in Verbum, such transcendence is rooted in the fact that our intellect is a created participation in uncreated light.