Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Thomas, Aristoteles, Urteil im Verhältnis zum intellektuellen Licht; Prophet: Urteil

Kurzinhalt: relation of intellectual light to judgment -> beyond the Aristotelian theory of agent intellect; Urteil des Propheten, cognitional potency ->s fixed by the light under which it operates

Textausschnitt: Inasmuch as the act of understanding grasps its own conditions as the understanding of this sort of thing, it abstracts from the irrelevant and expresses itself in a definition of essence. But inasmuch as the act of understanding grasps its own transcendence-in-immanence, its quality of intellectual light as a participation of the divine and uncreated Light, it expresses itself in judgment, in a positing of truth, in the affirmation or negation of reality.
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For it is the light of intellect that replaces the Augustinian vision of eternal truth; and regularly one reads that we know, we understand, we judge all things by a created light within us which is a participation, a resultant, a similitude, an impression of the first and eternal light and truth. ... The range of a cognitional potency is fixed by the light under which it operates: ... Knowing truth is a use or act of intellectual light, and so judgment occurs according to the force of that light. Hence the prophet judges according to an infused light, and the essence of prophecy lies in such judgment; for a prophet need not be the recipient of a revelation but only pass judgment on data revealed to another; such was the case of Joseph, who judged Pharaoh's dreams; such also perhaps was the case of Solomon, who judged with greater certitude and from a divine instinct what naturally is known about nature and human morals.