Understanding and Being

Author: Bernard Lonergan   Elizabeth A. Morelli   Mark D. Morelli  

Publisher: University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year: 2005

E-ISBN: 9781442682887

Subject: B017 epistemology

Language: ENG

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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.

Chapter

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 System

11 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-development

5 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 Being

7 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 God

EVENING 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

Discussion 2

1 Insight and Its Conceptual Expression

2 Inverse Insight and the Empirical Residue

3 Induction

4 Insight in Art

5 Intellect as Intelligence

6 Understanding and Perception

7 Self-appropriation, Hegel, and Kierkegaard

8 The Quest of the Ideal

9 Western Culture and the Scientific Ideal

10 The Concept of Being

Discussion 3

1 Common Sense

2 Common Sense and the Patterns of Experience

3 Common Sense and the Conjugates

4 The Ideal of Common Sense

5 Common Sense and Prudence

6 'Insight' in Apes

7 Common Sense and the Conjugates (continued)

8 Patterns of Experience

9 Common Sense and History

10 Varia: Teaching, Grace, Starting Point

11 Certitude in Common Sense

12 Science and Common Sense

13 The Dramatic Pattern of Experience

14 Applied Science

15 The Cognitional and the Ontological

16 Philosophy and Theology

Discussion 4

1 Immanent and Projected Intelligibility

2 Probability Theory and the Existence of God

3 The Content of Heuristic Structure

4 The Parallel of Cognitional and Ontological

5 The Concept of Structure

6 Marechal, Kant, and Lonergan

7 Intellect as Intelligence

8 Probability and Determinism

9 Form and Act

10 Intelligence in Contemporary Thomism

11 Insight and the Beatific Vision

12 Judgment and Cajetan's Analogy of Proportion

13 Common Sense

14 Common Sense and Science

15 Social Science

16 Heuristic Structure and Metaphysics

17 The Upper Blade

Discussion 5

1 The Pure Desire to Know and Charity

2 Kant on the Primacy of Practical Reason

3 Archetypes

4 Insight and Ethics

5 Suffering

6 Love and Ethics

7 Self-appropriation and the Christian

8 Historical Knowledge

9 Isomorphism and Objectivity

Lexicon of Latin and Greek Words and Phrases

Editorial Notes

Works of Lonergan Referred to in Editorial Notes

Index of Lectures and Discussions

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