Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Understanding and Being

Titel: Understanding and Being

Stichwort: Position - Gegenposition: desire to know - Erkennen als Schau (Kriterium Realität),

Kurzinhalt: Positions and Counterpositions, Selbstwiderspruch, basic set - consequent set, Selbstaufhebung der Gegenposition; Entwicklung bei position - wechselnder Grund bei counterposition, Descartes, Hume

Textausschnitt: () The totality of propositions can be divided into a basic set and a consequent set. The basic set, in the present approach, has to do with knowledge. What is it to know? What is objectivity? What is reality? ... In our philosophy the answer to these questions is determined by the subject as intelligently and rationally conscious, but in the opposed notions knowing is looking, objectivity is what can be seen, and reality is what's there. Besides the basic set, there is the consequent set of propositions, ... the meaning of consequent propositions changes with the meaning of the basic: with every basic meaning of knowing, objectivity, and reality, you give a meaning as well to all other propositions.
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Now basic propositions are either positions or counterpositions. They are positions if propositions on knowing, objectivity, and reality are expressions of intelligent and rational consciousness and compatible with its orientation to the universe of being. They are counterpositions if they are expressions which are contradictory to the positions and incompatible with orientation to the universe of being. The counterpositions express Sorge and its Welt insofar as Sorge differs from the pure desire to know and the Welt differs from the universe of being.
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implicitly intelligence and reasonableness are criteria for his utterance; explicitly, if he is in a counterposition, his utterance is opposed to these criteria. He is uttering a counterposition, but his utterance as human claims to be intelligent and rational.
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Positions develop. ... On the other hand, counterpositions tend to their own reversal: when the content of the utterance is contrasted with its fundamental implicit claim, there is a manifest contradiction, and the counterposition will collapse.
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