Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Urteil als Hervorgang des 2. inneren Wortes; processio, emanatio intelligibilis; Urteil: Zusammenfassung

Kurzinhalt: For no less than the first type of inner word, the second also proceeds from an intelligere; Intellekt: 1 Ebenen von Aktivität

Textausschnitt: ... and we may infer that the reflective activity of reason returning from the synthesis of intelligibilities to its origin in sense and in naturally known principles terminates in a reflective act of understanding, in a single synthetic apprehension of all the motives for judgment, whether intellectual or sensitive, in a grasp of their sufficiency as motives and so of the necessity of passing judgment or assenting. For no less than the first type of inner word, the second also proceeds from an intelligere. No less than the procession of the first type, the procession of the second is an emanatio intelligibilis.
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The general outline of Thomist analysis of human intellect is now, perhaps, discernible. There are two levels of activity, the direct and the reflective. On the direct level there occur two types of events: there are insights into phantasm which express themselves in definitions; there is the coalescence or development of insights which provides the hypothetical syntheses of simple quiddities. On the reflective level these hypothetical syntheses are known as hypothetical; they become questions which are answered by the resolutio in principia. This return to sources terminates in a reflective act of understanding, which is a grasp of necessary connection between the sources and the hypothetical synthesis; from this grasp there proceeds its self-expression, which is the compositio vel divisio, the judgment, the assent.