Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Substanz, Hume, Kant, Lonergan

Kurzinhalt: Substanz als Scheidepunkt zw. kritischer und dogmatischer Philosophie; "Abstraktion"

Textausschnitt: () Consequently, Lonergan goes on to say, 'the idea of substance has become the trial case, the 'experimentum crucis,' between the dogmatic and the critical schools.'
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'For if understanding is ultimately apprehensive, then 'substance,' what lies beneath or stands beneath the appearances, must be had by apprehension: this is the scholastic position. On the critical theory, the substance is known by an immanent activity and so is not apprehended but merely understood to be there; clearly this corresponds exactly with our knowledge of substance: we do not know what it is - as we would if we ever apprehended it; all we know is that it is there.'