Contents

Editors’ Preface

Frontispiece

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: INSIGHT AS ACTIVITY

1 Elements

1 A Dramatic Instance

2 Definition

3 Higher Viewpoints

4 Inverse Insight

5 The Empirical Residue

2 Heuristic Structures of Empirical Method

1 Mathematical and Scientific Insights Compared

2 Classical Heuristic Structures

3 Concrete Inferences from Classical Laws

4 Statistical Heuristic Structures

5 Survey

3 The Canons of Empirical Method

1 The Canon of Selection

2 The Canon of Operations

3 The Canon of Relevance

4 The Canon of Parsimony

5 The Canon of Complete Explanation

6 The Canon of Statistical Residues

4 The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations

1 Complementarity in the Knowing

2 Complementarity in the Known

3 Clarification by Contrast

4 Conclusion

5 Space and Time

1 The Problem Peculiar to Physics

2 The Description of Space and Time

3 The Abstract Intelligibility of Space and Time

4 Rods and Clocks

5 The Concrete Intelligibility of Space and Time

6 Common Sense and Its Subject

1 Common Sense as Intellectual

2 The Subjective Field of Common Sense

7 Common Sense as Object

1 Practical Common Sense

2 The Dynamic Structure

3 Intersubjectivity and Social Order

4 The Tension of Community

5 The Dialectic of Community

6 Individual Bias

7 Group Bias

8 General Bias

9 Conclusion

8 Things

1 The General Notion of the Thing

2 Bodies

3 Genus as Explanatory

4 Things within Things

5 Things and Emergent Probability

6 Species as Explanatory

7 Concluding Summary

9 The Notion of Judgment

10 Reflective Understanding

1 The General Form of Reflective Insight

2 Concrete Judgments of Fact

3 Insights into Concrete Situations

4 Concrete Analogies and Generalizations

5 Commonsense Judgments

6 Probable Judgments

7 Analytic Propositions and Principles

8 Mathematical Judgments

9 Summary

PART TWO: INSIGHT AS KNOWLEDGE

11 Self-affirmation of the Knower

1 The Notion of Consciousness

2 Empirical, Intelligent, and Rational Consciousness

3 The Unity of Consciousness

4 The Unity as Given

5 Self-affirmation

6 Self-affirmation as Immanent Law

7 Description and Explanation

8 The Impossibility of Revision

9 Self-affirmation in the Possibility of Judgments of Fact

10 Contrast with Kantian Analysis

11 Contrast with Relativist Analysis

12 The Notion of Being

1 A Definition

2 An Unrestricted Notion

3 A Spontaneous Notion

4 An All-pervasive Notion

5 The Core of Meaning

6 A Puzzling Notion

7 Theories of the Notion of Being

13 The Notion of Objectivity

1 The Principal Notion

2 Absolute Objectivity

3 Normative Objectivity

4 Experiential Objectivity

5 Characteristics of the Notion

14 The Method of Metaphysics

1 The Underlying Problem

2 A Definition of Metaphysics

3 Method in Metaphysics

4 The Dialectic of Method in Metaphysics

15 Elements of Metaphysics

1 Potency, Form, and Act

2 Central and Conjugate Forms

3 Explanatory Genera and Species

4 Potency and Limitation

5 Potency and Finality

6 The Notion of Development

7 Genetic Method

8 Summary

16 Metaphysics as Science

1 Distinctions

2 Relations

3 The Meaning of the Metaphysical Elements

4 The Unity of Proportionate Being

5 Metaphysics as Science

17 Metaphysics as Dialectic

1 Metaphysics, Mystery, and Myth

2 The Notion of Truth

3 The Truth of Interpretation

18 The Possibility of Ethics

1 The Notion of the Good

2 The Notion of Freedom

3 The Problem of Liberation

19 General Transcendent Knowledge

1 The Notion of Transcendence

2 The Immanent Source of Transcendence

3 The Notion of Transcendent Knowledge

4 Preliminaries to Conceiving the Transcendent Idea

5 The Idea of Being

6 The Primary Component in the Idea of Being

7 The Secondary Component in the Idea of Being

8 Causality

9 The Notion of God

10 The Affirmation of God

11 Comparisons and Contrasts

20 Special Transcendent Knowledge

1 The Problem

2 The Existence of a Solution

3 The Heuristic Structure of the Solution

4 The Notion of Belief

5 Resumption of the Heuristic Structure of the Solution

6 The Identification of the Solution

Epilogue

Lexicon of Latin and Greek Words and Phrases

Editorial Notes

Works of Lonergan Referred to in Editors’ Preface and Editorial Notes

Lonergan’s Lectures on Insight

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