Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Understanding and Being

Titel: Understanding and Being

Stichwort: Finalität als Kriterium für wahre und falsche Subjektivität;

Kurzinhalt: Normative Objectivity, wahre Objektivität und Subjektivität im Gefolge der "geistigen" Finalität

Textausschnitt: () There is another way of conceiving subjectivity. This process has a guide in the pure desire to know, in its finality. That finality as such withraws a man from other concerns; it gives the detachment, the disinterestedness, of the inquirer, of the one who is concerned to know what is. Objectivity is yielding to the dominance of that finality; it is not allowing desires and fears to interfere with it. Insofar as your desires and fears are interfering with this process, you have subjectivity in the sense that is opposed to objectivity. Again, inquiry, the demand for intelligibility, the demand for the unconditioned, are norms immanent within this cognitional process itself. Insofar as one is meeting those requirements, one is objective. Insofar as one's desires or fears or any other factor in one's makeup are interfering with the execution of this process according to its own immanent norms, one's judgments will be merely subjective.