Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Erfahrung ist nicht eigentlich die Quelle des Seins, sonst wäre das Sein reduziert auf Erfahrung - Kant

Kurzinhalt: though it is not as such the source of the concept of being - else, as Kant held,

Textausschnitt: To affirm actual being, more than a plausible tale is wanted; for experience, though it is not as such the source of the concept of being - else, as Kant held, the real would have to be confined to the field of possible experience - still it is the condition of the transition from the affirmation of the possibility to the affirmation of the actuality of being. Hence, the first operation of intellect regards quiddities, but the second, judgment, regards esse, the actus essendi. Note, however, that being is not reduced through possibility to intelligibility as to prior concepts; being is the first concept; what is prior to the first concept is, not a prior concept, but an act of understanding; and like other concepts, the concept of being is an effect of the act of understanding.