Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Schlaf: Form außerhalb von Raum u. Zeit; Urteil immer in Zeit; Mathematik, Naturwissenschaft

Kurzinhalt: quod quid est takes us outside time and space; but the act of compositio vel divisio: specification of time; Wahrheit immer im mind; nur in Gott ewige Wahrheit

Textausschnitt: Knowledge of the quod quid est takes us outside time and space; but the act of compositio vel divisio involves a return to the concrete. In particular, whatever may be hymned about eternal truths, human judgments always involve a specification of time. Indeed, since truth exists only in a mind, and since only the mind of God is eternal, there can be but one eternal truth.
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Automatically, the natural scientist who neglects sense falls into error; his work is to judge things as they are presented to the senses. On the other hand, the mathematician is not to be criticized because no real plane surface touches no real sphere at just one point; the criterion of mathematical judgment is not sense but imagination. Similarly, metaphysical entities are not to be called into question because they cannot be imagined; for metaphysics transcends not only sense but imagination as well.