History and System: 8 more pp.

History and System: 8 more pp.
Sku: 48300D0EL60
Archival Number: A483 V815
Author: Lonergan, B.
Language(s): English, Latin
Decade: 1960
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Description:
Continuation of the former. 8 handwritten schematic pp. Some headings: Modes of Apprehension (1), Stadia (2), De bono humano (3), De ambiguitate boni humani (4), The human good (5), Stadia (6).

Also closely related to some of what appears in 50100D0L050

The 8th item in Batch V, folder 8, System & History

Transcription:

48300DTE060

A483

Transcription by Robert M. Doran

Modes of apprehension

passive element constant

active, constructive, assimilative variable

mode of assimilation à undistinguished from mode of living

nominaà numina

just as word mediates between meaning and meant

so a universe of words mediates between mind and world

and the mediating universe is

undifferentiated from the meant

[page 2]

Stadia

primitivi haud fit divisio laboris

differentiatio conscientiae

magnae et antiquae civiliz

maxime dividitur labor

evolutio socialis, civilizationis

valores haud distinguuntur

cultura liberalis

exstat individuum

rationale – philosophiae

expurgatur mythos

coluntur scientiae

artes qua artes

aetas moderna

transformantur socialia

per conscientiam historicam

per inventiones scientificas

[page 3]

De bono humano

I bona particularia

II schemata repetitionis: ordo civilizationis

ad naturae dominationem: technologica

ad homines regulandos

domestica

oeconomica

politica

III valores aestheticus: obiectum intelligibile

ethicus: subiectum rationabile

religiosus: subiectum rationabile coram Deo/ cum aliis/ in mundo historico

[page 4]

De ambiguitate boni humani

α stat in bonis particularibus

ordines tech. et soc. propter bon. part.

valores: conditiones superstructura

quae in ordinibus fundantur

β stat in tribus ut tamen

bona part. subordinantur ord. soc.

ord. soc. regulatur valoribus

γ stat in valoribus

part. & ord. soc. non sunt nisi fundamentum material

[page 5]

The Human Good

The Basic Structure

Particular Goods

Schemes of Recurrence

α control of: nature – technology, capital [struck through; see below ‘capital’]

man – family/economy/polity

β streams of particular goods

coordinated operations

habits: institutions: capital

personal values and relations

Values

Aesthetic

Intellectual & moral

Religious

[page 6]

Stadia

primitivi: parum specializantur circuli operationes

civiliz magnae antiquae: specializantur circ. op. sociale

cultura liberalis: specializantur circ. op. culturale

aetas moderna: inventis scientificis et conscientia historica/ transformantur op. sociales, multiplicantur bona part.

[page 7]

Thing colours

Surface colours

Perspectives: not seen as seen

but seen as constructed

Language: experience of sound

experience of meaning

What enters consciousness, is what is assimilated

may be given, but peripheral

Conscientia historica

aspectus negativus

aspectus positivi

(1) decisiones, progressus, liberalismus, naturalismus Darwin Spencer

(2) romanticismus

(3) philosophia humana

(3) [sic] historia et scientia

(4) historia et irrationalitas

[page 8]

What is outside system is materia prima

Grenzbegriff

abstraction

I First set of non-systematized, same for everyone

Then different super-imposed systematizations

II [blank – entry ends]