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Summary: from cognitional theory to metaphysics in St. Thomas
Review: "To perfect the old by means of the new" Lonergan took the task of determining what the old really was. 'Verbum' is the result from the long years reaching up to the mind of St. Thomas. Not to the concepts used by St. Thomas but to the acts of thinking in him to revive his thinking mind again for today. Intelligence and reason are proper capacities of human being in Greek tradition. Understanding and Judgment are unique characteristics of imago Dei in christian tradition. 'Verbum'(inner word) is the key to the self-understanding of human being. Who am I as a human being? Grasp the acts of understanding and judgment! Then you will know what truth is, what being is, and what metaphysics is all about. Those who wish to know what the old key in Thomistic tradition was, read 'Verbum' and 'Grace and freedom'. Those who wish to know how we can add to and perfect the old by means of the new, read 'Insight' and 'Method in Theology'. These two couples show separately old things and new things in the order of nature and supernature. Humans are always the same in their natural potencies. Internal acts are always something like "?" then "!" then "..." We ask, we understand, we conceptualize what we understand. we reflect, we judge, and we assert that it is so. We deliberate, we love, and we will act. There are some books to help us to act properly. And 'Verbum' is surely one of them.
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