Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: Thomas: Problem zwischen Individuum und Gemeinschaft; Status; das Ordnungsgut repräsentiert in Menschen

Kurzinhalt: Thomas: einmal: das Weltgute als Ausdruck des schlechtnis Guten, dann die Ordnung der Seele; Lösung: the person emerges with personal status within the order

Textausschnitt: In one place in the first part of the Summa theologiae (q. 47, a.1), he states that the good of order found in the whole universe is the closest approximation to divine perfection. But in another place (q. 93, a. 2, ad 3m), he states that the order in the soul, on which is based the Trinitarian analogy, provides the most intense, concentrated image of divine perfection. There is a conflict between order and person. Are we interested in the order that helps persons, or in persons simply? Do you sacrifice persons for the order? The law does so when people are executed and wars are fought. But the order can also be sacrificed for persons. And the two can also be united insofar as the person emerges with personal status within the order. Then the order is an order between persons, and the good of order is apprehended, not so much by studying the notion of schemes of recurrence and determining the schemes in which human goods occur, but by apprehending human relations. The most efficacious example of the human good of order is the family, and the family subsists on personal relations. It is in their personal relations with one another that the members of the family concretely perceive their good of order. Through personal relations there is a concrete, immediate apprehension of what the good of order concretely is. It is useful to have a theoretical structure, to be able to speak of the good of order generally, but the simplest and most effective apprehension of the good of order is in the apprehension of personal relations. (40f; Fs) (notabene)