Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Konversion, radikal, Wissensstreben

Kurzinhalt: radikale Konversion, Ausdruck d. reinen Wissensstreben, Irrtum, Descartes

Textausschnitt: () Lonergan then makes a first approximation to explaining intellectual conversion by describing it as 'turning from what seems to what is.' Intellectual conversion is incidental if it is a turning 'from a particular error to a particular truth.
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Intellectual conversion is radical if it makes explicit and deliberate the pure desire to know and it acknowledges the existence and influence of inhibiting and reinforcing desires. Radical intellectual conversion effects the transition from the spontaneous to the explicit and the deliberate. ... Thus, fidelity to the pure desire to know effectively combats other inhibiting or reinforcing desires.