Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: der Begriff des Seins (Seinsbegriff) als conceptualization des Intellekts selbst u. die Folgerungen daraus

Kurzinhalt: but the concept of being, on the above showing, is the conceptualization of intelligibility as such; potens omnia fieri; d. Seinsbegriff ist nicht analog

Textausschnitt: From this it follows that the concept of being is natural to intellect; for intelligibility is natural to intellect, for it is its act; and conceptualization is natural to intellect, for it is its activity; but the concept of being, on the above showing, is the conceptualization of intelligibility as such, and so it too is natural to intellect.
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Again, it follows that the content of the concept of being is indeterminate; for it is conceived from any act of understanding whatever; it proceeds from intelligibility in act as such. Again, it follows that the concept of being cannot be unknown to intellect; for its sole condition is that intellect be in any act of understanding. Again, it follows that being is the object of intellect: for intellect would not be intellect were it not at least potens omnia fieri, in potency to any intelligibility; but what of its nature is potens omnia fieri must have being as its object. Finally, it is impossible to recount in a sentence or so the position of Aquinas on analogy; but one may note briefly that, on the above showing, the concept of being cannot but be analogous; being is always conceived in the same way - as the expression of intelligibility or intelligence in act