Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Understanding and Being

Titel: Understanding and Being

Stichwort: Urteil; Kriterium der Richtigkeit: keine weiteren relevanten Fragen

Kurzinhalt: Judgments on the Correctness of Insights; wann ist eine Einsicht richtig; Thomas: Syllogismus im Traum; Urteil als Verpflichtung - Gedächtnis

Textausschnitt: () Insights head towards a limit. When you reach that limit you have the invulnerable insight, that is, you have reached a point where further questions de facto do not arise. There can be further questions, but they are not relevant. The man comes home and says, 'Something happened.'
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One needs for judgment a fuller control of all faculties than one needs for insight. The control of judgment requires the poise of consciousness and the control over sensitive presentations and images that can be disturbed in the human makeup. If that control is disturbed, judgment is disturbed. St Thomas says that we can syllogize in our dreams, but when we wake up we find that we have made some mistake.
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In other words, besides the alternatives of 'is' and 'is not,' 'certainly,' 'probably,' and 'possibly,' there is also an indefinite number of alternatives that can be introduced by qualifying the judgment, paring it down, making it still less and less that you are asserting. The more you qualify the judgment, the easier it is to arrive at the point where your insights are invulnerable
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The point is not that no further relevant questions occur to me, but that there are no further relevant questions.
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Good judgment is a personal commitment; people complain about their memory but not about their judgment. Judgment is a personal commitment that involves one's own rationality. It is a contingent event; it usually depends upon an extremely large number of factors. But it is something that does happen; we do judge; there are things we are absolutely certain about, things that it would be silly to have any doubts about no matter how hesitant we may be.