Autor: Tekippe, Terry J.

Buch: What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight?

Titel: What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight?

Stichwort: Erkenntnistheorie, Maßstab, Augustinus

Kurzinhalt: Confessiones, Augustins Empirismus u. Materialismus, Ambrosius

Textausschnitt: () ... but once the basic structure is established, the question can be turned around: Are other accounts of knowing adequate? Thus the structure of knowing may exercise a critical function in assessing the history of philosophy.
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Augustine's Confessions. He began with a position in which the only realities he recognized were bodily ones. If he thought of spiritual realities, he nevertheless could not imagine them except as bodies. He speaks of 'spiritual things of which I was unable to think, except corporeally'