Understanding and being : the Halifax lectures on Insight / edited by Elizabeth A. Morelli and Mark D. Morelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lonergan, Bernard J. F.

Contributor:

Morelli, Elizabeth A.

Morelli, Mark D.

Crowe, Frederick E.

Series:

Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 1988 ; Works. 5.

Collected works of Bernard Lonergan ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lonergan, Bernard J. F. Insight.

Lonergan, Bernard J. F.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Comprehension (Theory of knowledge).

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Ontology.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (489 p.)

Edition:

Rev. and augm. / by Frederick E. Crowe with the collaboration of Elizabeth A. Morelli ... [et al.].

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : Published for Lonergan Research Institute of Regis College, Toronto, by University of Toronto Press, c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) was a noted Canadian philosopher and theologian. He devoted his life to articulating a generalized method of inquiry and its implications, not only for the human and natural sciences, but also for a better world and a higher quality of human life. His own clear vision showed him the need to overcome the terrible fragmentation of knowledge and life in our time. The struggle to achieve an integrated view is the theme that unified the body of his work. In the history of that struggle, Understanding and Being plays a central role. Published a year after his profound and complex Insight, it is the edited transcription of some thirty hours of Lonergan's lectures on that seminal book. Understanding and Being serves as a guide to the very challenging terrain of Insight, or, as one commentator put it, if Insight is the Everest in the range of Lonergan's works, Understanding and Being is the approach through rolling foothills. This edition, the second, incorporates more of the historical setting in the text and adds a wealth of explanatory notes, as well as previously unedited discussions that followed the lectures.

Contents:

Contents

Editors' Preface

LECTURES

1 Self-appropriation and Insight

1 Self-appropriation

2 Illustrations of Insight

2 Elements of Understanding

1 The Value of Self-appropriation

2 The Next of Related Terms

3 The Difference between Insight and Conception

4 The Content of the Insight

5 Conception and Abstraction

6 The Difference between Empirical Data and Concept

7 Nominal, Explanatory, and Implicit Definition

8 The Definitions of the Related Terms

9 The Expression and Object of Insight in Aristotle

10 The Notion of System11 Higher Viewpoints

12 The Significance of Symbolism

13 Inverse Insight

3 The Dynamic Aspect of Knowing

1 A Comparison of Scientific and Mathematical Understanding

2 The Notion of Heuristic Structure

3 Heuristic Procedure in Science

4 The Limitation of Classical Procedure

5 Probability Theory

6 The Notion of Probability

7 Canons of Empirical Method

4 Common Sense

1 Specialized Knowledge and Common Sense

2 Common Sense as Intellectual

3 Common Sense and the Role of Philosophy

4 Philosophy and Self-development5 The Notion of the Thing

5 Judgment

1 Judgment and Propositions

2 Judgment and Questioning

3 The Act of Reflective Understanding

4 Judgment and the Person Judging

5 Judgment in Itself

6 The Context of Judgment

7 Rational Consciousness

8 The General Form of Reflective Understanding

9 Concrete Judgments of Fact

10 Judgments on the Correctness of Insights

11 Probable Judgments

12 Analytic Propositions and Principles

13 Self-appropriation

6 Knowing and Being

1 Self-affirmation

2 The Notion of Being7 The A Priori and Objectivity

1 The Question of the A Priori

2 The Notion of Objectivity

8 A Definition of Metaphysics

1 The Underlying Problem

2 Positions and Counterpositions

3 Metaphysics as Synthesis

4 Transformation of Scientific Results

5 Implicit and Problematic Metaphysics

6 Explicit Metaphysics

7 Metaphysics and Explanatory Knowledge

9 Metaphysical Analysis and Metaphysical Integration

1 Metaphysical Analysis

2 Metaphysical Integration

10 Ethics and God

1 The Possibility of Ethics

2 The Existence of GodEVENING DISCUSSIONS

Introduction

Discussion 1

1 Mathematics and Logic

2 Refusing Insights

3 Insight as Unexpected

4 'Methods' of Gaining Insight

5 Self-appropriation and Philosophy

6 Self-appropriation and Truth

7 Self-appropriation and Self-involvement

8 The Universality of the Pure Desire to Know

9 Appropriation: The Word, the Act

10 Self-appropriation and Philosophy

11 Further Use of One's Insights

12 Philosophical Presuppositions of the Theory

13 Objectivity

14 Two Realisms

Notes:

"Second edition, revised and augmented, of Understanding and being: an introduction and companion to Insight, edited by Elizabeth A. Morelli and Mark D. Morelli, first published by The Edwin Mellen Press, New York and Toronto, 1980"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4875-9937-4

1-282-02926-6

9786612029264

1-4426-8288-4

OCLC:

431543537