Contents

Editors' Preface

1 The Problem of a Philosophy of Education

1 Philosophy of Education: Existence

1.1 A Merely Negative Conception of Philosophy of Education

1.2 The Influence of Dewey's Philosophy of Education

1.3 Traditionalists and Modernists

1.4 The Renaissance Ideal and Philosophy

2 New Factors in Contemporary Education

2.1 The Masses

2.2 The New Learning

2.3 Specialization

3 Toward a Catholic Philosophy of Education

4 Manner of Presentation

2 The Human Good as Object: Its Invariant Structure

1 Introduction

2 The Notion of the Good

2.1 Not Abstract

2.2 Not an Aspect

2.3 Not Negative

2.4 Not a Double Negation

2.5 Not Merely an Ideal

2.6 Not Apart from Evil

2.7 Not Static

2.8 The Good Known Analogously

2.9 The General Notion of the Human Good

3 The Invariant Structure of the Human Good

3.1 The Structure

3.2 Notes on the Invariant Structure of the Human Good

3.3 Evil

3 The Human Good as Object: Differentials and Integration

1 The Differentials of the Human Good

1.1 Intellectual Development

1.2 Sin

1.3 Redemption

1.4 Notes on the Differentials

2 Levels of Integration

2.1 Common Sense

2.2 Four Levels of Integration

4 The Human Good as the Developing Subject

1 Transitions

1.1 'Being a Man': From Essence to Ideal

1.2 'We,' 'I': From Substance to Subject

1.3 From Faculty Psychology to Flow of Consciousness

2 Differentiation and Horizon

2.1 The Intellectual Pattern of Experience

2.2 Horizon

3 Development

3.1 Scientific Development

3.2 Philosophic Development

3.3 Moral Development

4 Corollaries in Education

4.1 Active Methods

4.2 Should Education Be Moral?

4.3 Philosophy of Education and the Horizon of the Educationalist

5 The New Learning: Mathematics

1 Knowledge of Intellect Prior to the New Learning

1.1 Scholastic Theories

1.2 Illustrations from Geometry

1.3 Matter, Form, Abstraction

1.4 Implications for Teaching

1.5 Differences in Expression

1.6 The Greek Achievement

2 The Postclassical Versatility of Understanding

2.1 The Lobatchevskian Experience

2.2 Quest for Rigor

2.3 Abstraction: What Is Abstracted from

2.4 What One Reaches by Abstraction

2.5 Abstraction and Operations: Group Theory

6 Science and the New Learning

1 Heuristic Structures and Canons

1.1 An Instance

1.2 Heuristic Structure

1.3 The Canons of Empirical Method

1.4 Teaching Physics

2 The Transformation of the Notion of Science

2.1 From the Certain to the Probable: Science, Judgment, and Wisdom

2.2 Things and Causes: Analysis and Synthesis

2.3 Field Theory

2.4 From Logical Ideal to Method

2.5 From Analytic Propositions to the Real World

2.6 Conclusion

7 The Theory of Philosophic Differences

1 Differences and Problems of Development

2 Developing Objects and the Transformation of the Subject: Illustrations

2.1 Geometry as Intellectual Habit

2.2 The Notion of Space

2.3 Intersubjectivity and Mythic Consciousness

2.4 Intelligence as Knowing

2.5 The Notion of Being

2.6 The Notion of Objectivity

3 The Theory of Philosophic Differences

3.1 The Basic Group of Operations

3.2 Variations on the Basic Philosophic Differences

3.3 More Recent Variations

8 Piaget and the Idea of a General Education

1 General Background

2 Assimilation and Adjustment

2.1 The Fundamental Idea

2.2 Generalization and Differentiation

2.3 Group Theory

2.4 Language

2.5 Symbolic Play and Imitation

2.6 Subject and World

2.7 Evaluation

3 General Education as Development in Assimilation

9 Art

1 From Differentiated Consciousness to Ordinary Living

2 A Definition of Art

2.1 Pattern

2.2 Experiential

2.3 Pure Pattern

2.4 Purely Experiential

2.5 Release

2.6 Elemental Meaning

2.7 Objectification

2.8 Symbolic Meaning

2.9 Ulterior Significance

3 Art and Space

3.1 The Picture

3.2 The Statue

3.3 Architecture

4 Art and Time

4.1 Music

5 Poetry

5.1 Narrative

5.2 Drama

5.3 The Lyric

6 Conclusion

10 History

1 The Problem of History

2 The History of Specialized Science

3 The History of Philosophy

4 The History of Theology

5 The Problem of General History

Appendix

Lexicon of Latin and Greek Words and Phrases

Works of Lonergan Referred to in Footnotes

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