Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Einsicht in Phantasma als erster Teil des Prozesses hin zur wesentlichen Definition

Kurzinhalt: Erfahrung: Einsicht in Phantasma; Scotus, Kant: Leugnung dieser Sicht

Textausschnitt: Insight into phantasm is the first part of the process that moves from sense through understanding to essential definition. Though Aquinas derived the doctrine from Aristotle, he also affirmed it as a matter of experience: 'Quilibet in se ipso experiri potest, quod quando aliquis conatur aliquid intelligere, format sibi aliqua phantasmata per modum exemplorum, in quibus quasi inspiciat quod intelligere studet.' However, to many profound minds, so brief a description seems to have been insufficient. Scotus flatly denied the fact of insight into phantasm.