Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Thomas: Prinzip: das Ganze ist größer als das Teil

Kurzinhalt: Zwei Fragen offenbaren die Gültigkeit dieses Prinzips: quid sit? An sit?

Textausschnitt: The other stock example of a naturally known principle is that the whole is greater than the part. ... For, as every being is one, so every finite being is a whole compounded of parts, an ens quod made up of entia quibus. Moreover, we know this naturally. Natural form stands to natural matter, as intelligible form stands to sensible matter; and when by a natural spontaneity we ask quid sit, we reveal our natural knowledge that the material or sensible component is only a part and that the whole includes a formal component as well. Similarly, when by a natural spontaneity we ask an sit, we again reveal our natural knowledge that the whole is not just a quiddity but includes an actus essendi as well.