Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: inneres Wort in uns: zugleich processio operati und processio intelligibilis; reale Distinktion; intentio, res intelleca

Kurzinhalt: our inner word and act of understanding are two absolute entities really distinct; inner word in God: also natural generation

Textausschnitt: In us inner word proceeds from act of understanding by a processio intelligibilis that also is a processio operati, for our inner word and act of understanding are two absolute entities really distinct. In God inner word proceeds from act of understanding as uttering by a processio intelligibilis that is not a processio operati, at least inasmuch as divine understanding and divine Word are not two absolute entities really distinct.
()
It may be doubted that a pure processio intelligibilis is a real procession. If A is because of B without being caused by B, the dependence of A on B seems to be merely mental. It is true that a processio intelligibilis cannot be real except in a mind. On the other hand, in a mind it necessarily is real; just as the mind itself and its operation are real, so the intelligible procession within the mind and the consequent relations of origin are all real. 'Mental' is opposed to 'real' only inasmuch as one prescinds from the reality of mind.
()
Indeed, the divine procession of the Word is not only real but also a natural generation. In us that does not hold. Our intellects are not our substance; our acts of understanding are not our existence; and so our definitions and affirmations are not the essence and existence of our children. Our inner words are just thoughts, just esse intentionale of what we define and affirm, just intentio intellecta and not res intellecta. But in God intellect is substance, and act of understanding is act of existence; it follows that the Word that proceeds in him is of the same nature and substance as its principle, that his thought of himself is himself, that his intentio intellecta of himself is also the res intellecta. As there is an analogy of ens and esse, so also there is an analogy of the intelligibly proceeding est. In us est is just a thought, a judgment.