Autor: Vertin, Michael -- Mehrere Autoren: Lonergan Workshop, Volume 8

Buch: Lonergan's "Three Basic Questions" and a Philosophy of Philosophies

Titel: Michael Vertin, Lonergan's "Three Basic Questions" and a Philosophy of Philosophies

Stichwort: Philosophie der Philosophien; diskursiv operational prä-empirische Grundlegung (discursive operational pre-empirical foundationalism)

Kurzinhalt: : (i) Apparent knowing does indeed occur in me, and it distinctively consists of DISCURSIVE operations; (ii) that assertion is based upon PRE-EMPIRICAL OPERATIONAL EVIDENCE and ...

Textausschnitt: iv. discursive operational pre-empirical foundationalism

243a The fourth group of philosophers agrees with the third group in every fundamental respect save one: for the fourth group, the hallmark of apparent cognitional operations is not directness, immediacy, intuitivity, whether intentional or nonintentional or both. On the contrary, it is attentiveness (in experiencing), intelligence (in understanding), reasonableness (in judging), and responsibility (in evaluating), all of which bespeaks at least four levels of cognitional operations that, though intentional, also possess a crucial conscious (or nonintentional) dimension-operations, that is to say, characterized by a certain intentional indirectness or mediacy, operations characterized by discursiveness. But like the third group, the fourth group maintains that the evidence from which one properly argues in professing a phenomenology of cognitional operations is nothing other than the pre-empirical evidence identical with whatever is functionally intrinsic to one's concrete performance of seriously professing anything at all. Moreover, like the third group, the fourth group maintains that the first two contentions together outline what methodologically is the very first step in philosophizing. We may term the fourth group's stand on the basic phenomenological issue "discursive operational pre-empirical foundationalism" and summarize it thus:

A. 1 (Discursive Operational Pre-Empirical Foundationalism): (i) Apparent knowing does indeed occur in me, and it distinctively consists of DISCURSIVE operations;
(ii) that assertion is based upon PRE-EMPIRICAL OPERATIONAL EVIDENCE and thus is OPERATIONALLY INCONTROVERTIBLE; and
(iii) the first two assertions constitute the general form of the fundamental determinative member of the integral set of basic philosophical stances. (Fs)

243b "Discursivism" as just characterized may also be called "(phenomenological) critical realism"; and I would propose Bernard Lonergan (with important antecedents in Aristotle and Aquinas) as a philosopher holding this view (1967b: 160-163 et passim). And of course I should add that to the discursive operational pre-empirical foundationalist stand on the basic phenomenological issue there correspond correlatively specified stands on the basic phenomenological-epistemological and epistemological-metaphysical issues and, in consequence, on the basic epistemological and metaphysical issues. (Fs)