Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Lonergans "dritter" Weg der Erkenntnis, nichtrationale Erklärung d. Wirklichkeit: Empirist, Sensist, Positivist, Pragmatist, Idealist

Kurzinhalt: in und durch dem Intellekt kommt es zur Erkenntnis von Dingen, Erkennen: Tier, Mensch; accept the sense of reality as criterion of reality, and you are a materialist, ... accept reason as a criterion but retain

Textausschnitt: A fifth element in the general notion of an inner word is that in it and through it intellect comes to knowledge of things. ... Take it as knowledge of reality, and there results the secular contrast between the solid sense of reality and the bloodless categories of the mind. Accept the sense of reality as criterion of reality, and you are a materialist, sensist, positivist, pragmatist, sentimentalist, and so on, as you please. Accept reason as a criterion but retain the sense of reality as what gives meaning to the term 'real,' and you are an idealist; for, like the sense of reality, the reality defined by it is nonrational. Insofar as I grasp it, the Thomist position is the clearheaded third position: reason is the criterion and, as well, it is reason - not the sense of reality - that gives meaning to the term 'real.' The real is what is; and 'what is' is known in the rational act, judgment.