Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Procession (Hervorgang) des Wortes - aber nicht der Liebe: generatio; Identität zw. Akt d. Liebens und d. Geliebtem

Kurzinhalt: the amari of the beloved in the lover is one and the same act as the amare of the lover for the beloved; the object of intellect is in intellect 'per similitudinem speciei -> generatio

Textausschnitt: Similarly, by final causality there results from the beloved the amari of the beloved; and this amari of the beloved is not in the beloved but in the lover. Next, the appeti of the term in the motive principle is one and the same act as the appetere of the motive principle for the term; similarly, the amari of the beloved in the lover is one and the same act as the amare of the lover for the beloved ... Finally, if the presence of the beloved in the lover is exactly the same entity as the act of love in the lover, why does Aquinas bother about it? Obviously because he wishes to determine the nature of love and so to show that, while the procession of the Word is a generation, still the procession of Love is not. The object of intellect is in intellect 'per similitudinem speciei,' but the object of will or love is in the will not by reproduction but as a goal is in tendency to the goal.
()
There cannot be the dynamic presence of the beloved in the lover's will, unless there first is intellectual conception. Further, it is not the concept but the conceived that is loved; hence divine love necessarily is related both to the Word and to God from whom the Word proceeds.