Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Zwei Arten von Intelligibilia, Weise des Erkennens nur im Modus verschieden

Kurzinhalt: Divine substance: wie ein zu starkes Licht; actuated intelligibility of sensible things: abstracts from space and time, spiritual substances: outside space and time

Textausschnitt: As the sensible is the object of sense, so the intelligible is the object of intellect. The sensible is confined to material reality, but the intelligible is coextensive with the universe: whatever can be can be understood. The supreme intelligible is the divine substance, which lies beyond the capacity of human intellect, not as sound lies outside the range of sight, but as excessive light blinds it.
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Further, there are two classes of intelligibles and two modes of understanding: ... But while the difference between the two classes of intelligible is real and intrinsic, the difference between the two kinds of understanding is only a difference in mode; hence, whether the soul is in or out of the body, it is the same human intellect, specified by the same formal object, but operating under the modal difference that actual intelligibility is presented or is not presented in phantasms. Again, just as understanding the actuated intelligibility of sensible things abstracts from space and time, so the spiritual substances that are in themselves actually intelligible exist outside space and time.