Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: Kennzeichen der invarianten Struktur des Guten: Isomorphic with Other Structures

Kurzinhalt: Isomorphie zwischen dem Guten und den drei Stufen: Erfahrung ...;

Textausschnitt: The first parallel is with the structure of cognitional activity. We have distinguished particular goods, the good of order, and value. Our acquaintance with the particular good is mainly a matter of experience. But to know about the good of order, you have to understand. It is intelligence, understanding, insight, that is chiefly relevant to knowing the good of order. And it is when one reflects on different orders, different possible setups and systems, that one comes to the notion of value, and such reflection is on the level of judgment. You will recall from Insight that experience, understanding, and judgment are three fundamental levels of consciousness. They run parallel to a fundamental division in metaphysics, according to which finite being is composed of potency, form, and act, whether substantial or accidental. (41; Fs)