Lexicon of Arguments

 

Holz II 32
World/Thinking/Tradition: pre-modern philosophy had founded thinking about the world from the world as a matter of course. Because also the thinking and the thinking itself is experienced as part of the world.
DescartesVsTradition: Descartes shows that everything in the world can be called into doubt, except for the doubt of the doubter himself. >Skepticism.
Until then, Thomas of Aquin's theorem was valid:
Holz II 33
Cognition/Aquinas: "For everything that is ordered towards a goal, the rule of its direction and order must be taken from the goal.⁽¹⁾ ((s) The things to think determine the thinking). >Cognition.
HolzVsAquinas: so the method of recognition and the order of the terms must be determined by the object. That is naive realism!
According to Descartes, that is, if everything is doubtful except thinking itself, method and order of concepts must be determined by thinking!
So it is possible that the world is only set by the form of our thinking. (>Husserl).
Husserl: "The natural soil of being is secondary in its validity of being and presupposes the transcendental".⁽²⁾


1. Thomas von Aquin, Summa contra gentiles, I, 1 Hg. von K. Albert & P. Engelhardt, Darmstadt 1974, S. 3
2. Edmund Husserl, Cartesianische Meditationen, Den Haag 1950, S. 59.