Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Understanding and Being

Titel: Understanding and Being

Stichwort: Aristoteles, Einsicht, quidditas, Wasfrage, Warumfrage

Kurzinhalt: Insight in Aristotle, Mondfinsternis, 4 Typen von Fragen, What is a man?: was bedeutet warum -> Materie, Form,

Textausschnitt: () Aristotle divides questions into four types:
(1) What? What is it?
(2) Is it?
(3) Why is it so?
(4) Is it so?
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Aristotle's answer was, What means why. How can what mean why? In some cases, he says, it is quite easy to see.
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His doctrine of matter and form arises out of this problem. When you ask, 'What is a man?' you mean, 'Why is this a man?' You have this, what you point to, the materials. You ask, 'Why is this a man?' The answer is the soul.