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Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Buch: Understanding and Being Titel: Understanding and Being Stichwort: (Schulbuch) Konzeptualismus; Ding -> Sprung zu Begriff; Newman: illative sense; Thomas - Averroes, Avicenna Kurzinhalt: Intellect as Intelligence; the first element of intellectual knowledge is the concept. Then you compare concepts, and they're either contradictory... Textausschnitt: Latin scholastic manual ... you form concepts, and they're little nuggets. And they're functions of the thing; they're not dependent upon any intelligently conscious process; they're first; the first element of intellectual knowledge is the concept. Then you compare concepts, and they're either contradictory, or necessarily related, or neither the one nor the other. Then you make judgments, and you make judgments in virtue of the sufficiency of the evidence. And what's the evidence? Well, it's your concept ... From your sense data you can build up your theory of sensation in terms of knowing the sense data. From the words you can say we have to have knowledge of universals. You have principles, because these universals are necessarily linked together. And they're analytic: the predicate says just what's in the subject. There aren't any synthetic ones; if you say there are, you're a Kantian. There's no relevance of inquiry, understanding, the development of understanding, the way understanding develops, and no clear, explicit account of what exactly critical reflection is. We ask the question, An sit? But what goes on? What precisely is that moment in your knowing? Where does it come from, and what does it lead to? |