Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Understanding and Being

Titel: Understanding and Being

Stichwort: Metaphysik als alles über alles (konkret und allgemein); als Synthesis zw. Sorge und Sein Grundlage aller Wissenschaften

Kurzinhalt: Metaphysics as Synthesis; Sein als everything about everything, Beziehung zw. Metaphysik und anderen Wissensgebieten

Textausschnitt: () Being is completely universal: it includes everything. Being is completely concrete: it includes everything about everything. It is in terms of that notion of being that we developed a notion of metaphysics. Metaphysics is not a concern with the reality of the candlestick or the snuffbox; it is a concern with the universe as opposed to a world determined by a Sorge, by a concern. It is concerned with a synthesis.
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First, metaphysics underlies all other departments, because all other departments are specializations of the total basic inquiry.
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First, metaphysics underlies all other departments, because all other departments are specializations of the total basic inquiry.
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Secondly, metaphysics penetrates all other departments.
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Thirdly, metaphysics transforms the results of other departments.
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While this tension, on the moral level, is familiar, it exists equally on the cognitional level. There is development not merely on the moral side of man, there is a more fundamental development on the cognitional side, in the transition from a world defined by Sorge to a world defined by the pure desire to know, and all the implications in that.
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Finally, metaphysics unifies other departments.