Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Understanding and Being

Titel: Understanding and Being

Stichwort: Metaphysik: implizit, problematisch, explizit

Kurzinhalt: Implicit and Problematic Metaphysics, Humanwissenschaften erweisen die Notwendigkeit einer Metyphysik

Textausschnitt: () The metaphysics with which we are concerned is a metaphysics that is implicit in everyone by the simple fact that he is a conscious subject that experiences, understands, and judges.
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Besides the implicit stage in metaphysics, there is a problematic stage. The need for making the implicit explicit is felt, but the explicitation is not achieved. The problematic stage can be general or particular,
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The problematic stage arises, in particular, insofar as there is a desire for a satisfactory method for the human sciences. In The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl makes the point that,