Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Topics in Education

Titel: Topics in Education

Stichwort: das intellektuelle Erfahrungsmuster: pure desire to know - Universum; that intellect is potens omnia facere et fieri

Kurzinhalt: The Intellectual Pattern of Experience: consciousness is dominated by wonder, by the pure desire to know; the correlative becomes the universe

Textausschnitt: 17/4 When consciousness moves into the intellectual pattern of experience, one's concern becomes the wonder that Aristotle spoke of as the beginning of all science and philosophy. In the measure that that wonder is the dominant concern in consciousness, experience takes on a pattern of its own that is dictated by the exigences of that wonder. ... you can see that this pattern is an organized whole that has its own characteristics, and that it is quite distinct from the ordinary pattern of experience in which we are dealing with persons and mastering things. In the intellectual pattern of experience, consciousness is dominated by wonder, by the pure desire to know, by intellectual detachment and impartiality. One wants to know, What is it? and whether one's answer to that question is true. (86f; Fs)
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Still, the significance of moving into the intellectual pattern of experience is that, when concern is purely intellectual wonder, the correlative becomes the universe. As long as consciousness is directed by whatever concerns one may have, one is in one's world, but insofar as the intellectual pattern of experience is dominant, one is concerned, not with any private world, but with the universe. This is the meaning of the traditional notion that intellect is potens omnia facere et fieri. The object of intellect is omnia, everything, and an object that includes everything is not restricted to any genus of things. That object must be being. And so, while concern has as its correlative a private world, the intellectual pattern of experience has as its correlative the one universe, everything. (87f; Fs)