Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Newman, Lonergan, Grammar, Logik

Kurzinhalt: Grammar of Assent, Lonergan über Newman, Aristoteles, Newmans letzte Instanz des Wissens, egotism - modesty, Newmans Methode, Durchbruch (alps), Gewissheit - Zustimmung

Textausschnitt: () As Lonergan articulated one of his major debts to Newman: 'Newman's remark that ten thousand difficulties do not make a doubt has served me in good stead. It encouraged me to look difficulties squarely in the eye, while not letting them interfere with my vocation or my faith.'
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For Newman the core issue in the Grammar of Assent was the nature of the human mind. What does it mean to know?
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For Newman the ultimate court of appeal for the knowledge of human mentality would be the mind's own knowledge of itself. As he trenchantly expressed it, 'in these provinces of inquiry egotism is true modesty.'
() For Newman the ultimate court of appeal for the knowledge of human mentality would be the mind's own knowledge of itself. As he trenchantly expressed it, 'in these provinces of inquiry egotism is true modesty.' ... The following words must have rung a bell for the young Lonergan who was beginning to 'think for himself':
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In spite of oppositions and conflicts among people on matters philosophical, ethical, and religious, still a serious inquirer, 'brings together his reasons and relies on them, because they are his own, and this is his primary evidence; and he has a second ground of evidence, in the testimony of those who agree with him. But his best evidence is the former, which is derived from his own thoughts; and it is that ...
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... it struck me 'You are wrong in beginning with certitude - certitude is only a kind of assent - you should begin with contrasting assent and inference.