Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Metaphysik, Konversion, Position, Gegenposition, Potenz, Form, Akt

Kurzinhalt: position, counter-position (Descartes, Hobbes, Hume), Kriterien d. Position, Physik-Metaphysik, Insight: Zusammenfassung

Textausschnitt: () A basic position in metaphysics will be arrived at '1) if the real is the concrete universe of being and not a subdivision of the 'already out there now'; 2) if the subject becomes known when it affirms itself intelligently and reasonably and so is not known yet in any prior 'existential' state; and 3) if objectivity is conceived as a consequence of intelligent inquiry and critical reflection, and not as a property of vital anticipation, extroversion and satisfaction.' On the other hand, it will be a basic counter-position if it contradicts one or more of the basic positions:
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... potency, form and act?' He answers simply: 'They express the structure in which one knows what proportionate being is; they outline the mould in which an understanding of proportionate being necessarily will flow; they arise from understanding and they regard proportionate being, not as understood, but only as to be understood.' There follows a very important corollary: 'If one wants to know just what forms are, the proper procedure is to give up metaphysics and turn to the sciences ...
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... Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.