Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Lonergan, Aristoteles Metaphysik: Buch 1: Ursachen, 2-5: epistemologisch ... 6: Substanz, Potenz

Kurzinhalt: Epistemologie in Metaphysik schon bei Aristoteles; Philosophie als Weisheit; Eule, Straße; thus truth and reality are parallel:

Textausschnitt: Acknowledgment of an epistemological element in the habit of wisdom goes back to its classical exposition in the Metaphysics of Aristotle. ... But for a resumption of the objective viewpoint so established, one must leap to book 6 (E). There one finds an account of the real, followed by accounts of substance or essence, of (potency and act, of unity and opposition, and of the separate substances. But the intervening books 2 to 5 are gnoseological, methodological, almost epistemological. Knowledge of causes has to be true.
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One may say that philosophers are in the position of people walking the streets; to know the facades of houses is easy, but to know their interiors difficult. So too, there are palpable truths and hidden truths. In particular, knowledge of the separate substances is hard to come by, for in their regard we are just owls in daylight
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Thus truth and reality are parallel: what has a cause of its reality, also has a cause of its truth; again, as the reality that grounds other reality is the more real, so the truth that grounds other truth is the more true; as an infinite regress in the demonstration of truths is untenable, so also is an infinite regress in the grounding of one reality by another. There is, then, something of which the reality is most real and the truth most true, and it is the object of wisdom.