Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Sünde als Unterlassung; Notwendigkeit der Bewegung vom Intellekt zum Willen; Sünder; Unruhe, Umkehr

Kurzinhalt: necessity: intelligible procession from intellect to will -> sin is failure to act; ontologische Begründung der Rationalisierung der Fehler einer Person oder Gesellschaft

Textausschnitt: Evidently so, for without an intelligible procession of love in the will from the word of intellect, it would be impossible to define the will as rational appetite. Natural appetite is blind; sensitive appetite is spontaneous; but rational appetite can be moved only by the good that reason pronounces to be good. Because of the necessity of intelligible procession from intellect to will, sin is not act in the will but failure to act; it is failure to will to do the good that is commanded, or it is failure to will to inhibit tendencies that are judged to be wrong. Because of the same necessity of intelligible procession from intellect to will, the sinner is driven by a fine disquiet either to seek true peace of soul in repentance or else to obtain a simulated peace in the rationalization that corrupts reason by making the false appear true that wrong may appear right. Finally, however much it may be disputed whether there is any processio operati from the word of our intellects to the act in our wills, it cannot be denied that there is a processio intelligibilis from the word of intellect to the act of rational appetite.
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