Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Augustinus, Thomas, Lonergan, Dinge, Sinnenwelt, Geist, Konversion

Kurzinhalt: Augustinus, Thomas, Lonergan: Unermüdlichkeit der Konversion vom Sinnenwesen zum Geistwesen

Textausschnitt: () Now, for acquiring this self-knowledge, he needs a constant habit of withdrawing from things of the senses and of concentrating his thought within himself, and holding it there.
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He is speaking of the importance of moving from 'our own little worlds' to the universe of being grasped by true judgment. This move requires a constant correction of our own private worlds. However, Lonergan notes, quoting Thomas Aquinas: 'I am inclined to believe [...] that this constant and sedulous correction does not occur without a specifically philosophic conversion from the homo sensibilibus immersus to homo maxime est mens hominis.