The Lonergan Reader

by Lonergan, Bernard J. F.; Morelli, Elizabeth A.; Morelli, Mark D.

• ISBN13: 9780802076489
• ISBN10: 0802076483
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

In order to make Lonergan?s unique contribution to philosophy and theology accessible to students and teachers, the editors of The Lonergan Reader have brought together in a single volume selections that represent the depth and breadth of his thought.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	3	(1)
Bernard Lonergan: A Biographical Sketch	4	(7)
Lonergan's Place in Culture	11	(15)
The Selections	26	(3)
PART ONE Insight: A Study of Human Understanding: Selections	29	(332)
I Introduction to Insight	31	(15)
1 The Original Preface	33	(4)
2 Preface	37	(3)
3 Introduction	40	(6)
II The Act of Insight	46	(30)
1 A Dramatic Instance	47	(4)
2 Definition	51	(6)
3 Higher Viewpoints	57	(6)
4 Inverse Insight	63	(4)
5 The Empirical Residue	67	(5)
6 Mathematical and Scientific Insights Compared	72	(4)
III The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations	76	(21)
1 Classical Heuristic Structures	77	(4)
2 Statistical Heuristic Structures	81	(4)
3 The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations	85	(1)
4 Complementarity in the Known	86	(11)
IV Common Sense and Its Subject	97	(26)
1 Common Sense as Intellectual	98	(7)
2 The Subjective Field of Common Sense	105	(18)
V Common Sense as Object	123	(30)
1 The Dynamic Structure	124	(2)
2 The Dialectic of Community	126	(2)
3 Individual Bias	128	(4)
4 Group Bias	132	(3)
5 General Bias and the Longer Cycle of Decline	135	(18)
VI Things and Bodies	153	(9)
1 The General Notion of the Thing	154	(3)
2 Bodies	157	(3)
3 Summary	160	(2)
VII Judgment	162	(16)
1 The Notion of Judgment	163	(7)
2 The General Form of Reflective Insight	170	(1)
3 Concrete Judgments of Fact	171	(2)
4 Insights into Concrete Situations	173	(5)
VIII Self-Affirmation of the Knower	178	(20)
1 The Notion of Consciousness	180	(2)
2 Empirical, Intelligent, and Rational Consciousness	182	(3)
3 The Unity of Consciousness	185	(1)
4 The Unity as Given	186	(2)
5 Self-Affirmation	188	(1)
6 Self-Affirmation as Immanent Law	189	(4)
7 Description and Explanation	193	(3)
8 The Impossibility of Revision	196	(2)
IX The Notion of Being	198	(13)
1 A Definition	198	(3)
2 An Unrestricted Notion	201	(2)
3 A Spontaneous Notion	203	(4)
4 An All-Pervasive Notion	207	(1)
5 The Core of Meaning	208	(3)
X The Notion of Objectivity	211	(11)
1 The Principal Notion	212	(2)
2 Absolute Objectivity	214	(2)
Normative Objectivity	216	(2)
4 Experiential Objectivity	218	(2)
5 Characteristics of the Notion	220	(2)
XI Method in Metaphysics	222	(24)
1 The Underlying Problem	223	(5)
2 A Definition of Metaphysics	228	(5)
3 Method in Metaphysics	233	(5)
4 Universal Doubt	238	(4)
5 Empiricism	242	(2)
XII Development	246	(17)
1 Finality	247	(1)
2 The Notion of Development	248	(4)
3 Genetic Method	252	(1)
4 Human Development and Genuineness	253	(10)
XIII Truth and Interpretation	263	(12)
1 The Criterion of Turth	264	(2)
2 The Appropriation of Truth	266	(4)
3 The Notion of a Universal Viewpoint	270	(5)
XIV The Problem of Liberation	275	(16)
1 The Decision	276	(3)
2 The Problem of Liberation	279	(12)
XV Knowledge of God	291	(17)
1 The Immanent Source of Transcendence	292	(3)
2 The Affirmation of God	295	(8)
3 Conclusion	303	(5)
XVI The Problem of Evil and Its Solution	308	(32)
1 The Problem	310	(6)
2 The Existence of a Solution	316	(1)
3 The Heuristic Structure of the Solution	317	(15)
4 Belief	332	(8)
XVII Self-Appropriation	340	(21)
1 Self-Appropriation	340	(17)
2 The Value of Self-Appropriation	357	(4)
PART TWO From Insight to Method in Theology	361	(82)
I A Definition of Art	363	(13)
1 Pattern	363	(1)
2 Experiential	364	(1)
3 Pure Pattern	365	(1)
4 Purely Experiential	366	(1)
5 Release	367	(1)
6 Elemental Meaning	368	(2)
7 Objectification	370	(2)
8 Symbolic Meaning	372	(1)
9 Ulterior Significance	373	(2)
10 Conclusion	375	(1)
II Openness and Religious Experience	376	(4)
1 Philosophy of Religious Experience	376	(1)
2 Openness as Fact, Achievement, and Gift	377	(1)
3 Openness and Religious Experience	378	(2)
III Cognitional Structure	380	(7)
1 Dynamic Structure	381	(1)
2 Human Knowing as Dynamic Structure	381	(2)
3 Consciousness and Self-Knowledge	383	(4)
IV Dimensions of Meaning	387	(15)
1 Meaning and the World of the Subject	387	(3)
2 Control of Meaning	390	(1)
3 Conclusion	400	(2)
V The Future of Thomism	402	(6)
1 Classical Thomism	402	(2)
2 Thomism for Tomorrow	404	(3)
3 Conclusion	407	(1)
VI Theology in Its New Context	408	(12)
VII The Subject	420	(16)
1 The Neglected Subject	421	(3)
2 The Truncated Subject	424	(2)
3 The Immanentist Subject	426	(3)
4 The Existential Subject	429	(5)
5 The Alienated Subject	434	(2)
VIII Pluralism, Classicism, and Relativism	436	(7)
1 Pluralism and Classicist Culture	436	(2)
2 Pluralism and Relativism	438	(5)
PART THREE Method in Theology: Selections	443	(100)
I Transcendental Method	445	(10)
1 A Preliminary Notion	446	(1)
2 Four Levels of Conscious Intentionality	447	(3)
3 The Functions of Transcendental Method	450	(5)
II The Human Good	455	(11)
1 Judgments of Value	456	(4)
2 The Structure of the Human Good	460	(6)
III Realms of Meaning	466	(5)
IV Religion	471	(12)
1 The Question of God	472	(2)
2 Religious Experience	474	(2)
3 The Dialectical Character of Religious Development	476	(1)
4 Faith	477	(2)
5 A Technical Note	479	(4)
V Functional Specialties	483	(10)
1 Three Types of Specialization	484	(1)
2 An Eightfold Division	485	(5)
3 Grounds of the Division	490	(3)
VI History and Historical Method	493	(25)
1 Nature and History	494	(5)
2 Critical History	499	(9)
3 Heuristic Structures in Historical Method	508	(10)
VII Dialectic	518	(13)
1 Horizons	519	(2)
2 Conversions and Breakdowns	521	(6)
3 Dialectic: The Problem	527	(2)
4 Dialectic: The Structure	529	(2)
VIII Foundations	531	(12)
1 Categories	532	(3)
2 General Theological Categories	535	(2)
3 Special Theological Categories	537	(4)
4 Use of the Categories	541	(2)
PART FOUR Late Writings	543	(56)
I Static and Dynamic Viewpoints	545	(5)
II Dialectic of Authority	550	(8)
III Social Alienation and the Second Enlightenment	558	(8)
1 Social Alienation	558	(4)
2 The Second Enlightement	562	(4)
IV Healing and Creating in History	566	(11)
V Praxis	577	(3)
VI Natural Right and Historical Mindedness	580	(16)
1 Historicity	582	(2)
2 Natural Right in Historicity	584	(4)
3 The Dialectic of History	588	(8)
VII The Degrees of Self-Transcendence	596	(3)
CHRONOLOGY	599	(2)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	601	(6)
Works by Lonergan	601	(1)
Selected Other Works	602	(5)
INDEX	607