Insight · A Study of Human Understanding, Volume 3 · 003 (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan) by Lonergan, Bernard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Editors’ Preface Frontispiece Preface Introduction PART ONE: INSIGHT AS ACTIVITY

1 Elements

1 A Dramatic Instance 2 Definition 2.1 The Clue 2.2 Concepts 2.3 The Image 2.4 The Question 2.5 Genesis 2.6 Nominal and Explanatory Definition 2.7 Primitive Terms 2.8 Implicit Definition 3 Higher Viewpoints 3.1 Positive Integers 3.2 Addition Tables 3.3 The Homogeneous Expansion 3.4 The Need of a Higher Viewpoint 3.5 Formulation of the Higher Viewpoint 3.6 Successive Higher Viewpoints 3.7 The Significance of Symbolism 4 Inverse Insight 5 The Empirical Residue

2 Heuristic Structures of Empirical Method

1 Mathematical and Scientific Insights Compared 1.1 Similarities 1.2 Dissimilarities 2 Classical Heuristic Structures 2.1 An Illustration from Algebra 2.2 ‘Nature’ 2.3 Classification and Correlation 2.4 Differential Equations 2.5 Invariance 2.6 Summary 3 Concrete Inferences from Classical Laws 4 Statistical Heuristic Structures 4.1 Elementary Contrasts 4.2 The Inverse Insight 4.3 The Meaning of Probability 4.4 Analogy in Heuristic Structure 4.5 Some Further Questions 5 Survey

3 The Canons of Empirical Method

6.5.1 Classical Laws Conditional 6.5.2 The Diverging Series of Conditions 6.5.3 The Nonsystematic Aggregate of Diverging Series 6.6.1 Events 6.6.2 Not Processes 6.6.3 Observable Events 6.6.4 Foundations 6.6.5 Use of Classical Concepts 6.6.6 Images and Parsimony 6.6.7 A Principle of Uncertainty

1 The Canon of Selection 1.1 The Restriction to Sensible Data 1.2 What Are Sensible Data? 2 The Canon of Operations 3 The Canon of Relevance 4 The Canon of Parsimony 4.1 Classical Laws 4.2 Statistical Laws 5 The Canon of Complete Explanation 6 The Canon of Statistical Residues 6.1 The General Argument 6.2 The Notion of Abstraction 6.3 The Abstractness of Classical Laws 6.4 Systematic Unification and Imaginative Synthesis 6.5 The Existence of Statistical Residues 6.6 The General Character of Statistical Theories 6.7 Indeterminacy and the Nonsystematic

4 The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigations

1 Complementarity in the Knowing 1.1 Complementary Heuristic Structures 1.2 Complementary Procedures 1.3 Complementary Formulations 1.4 Complementary Modes of Abstraction 1.5 Complementarity in Verification 1.6 Complementarity in Data Explained 1.7 Summary 2 Complementarity in the Known 2.1 General Characteristics of the View 2.2 Schemes of Recurrence 2.3 The Probability of Schemes 2.4 Emergent Probability 2.5 Consequences of Emergent Probability 3 Clarification by Contrast 3.1 The Aristotelian World View 3.2 The Galilean World View 3.3 The Darwinian World View 3.4 Indeterminism 4 Conclusion

5 Space and Time

1 The Problem Peculiar to Physics 1.1 Invariant and Relative Expressions 1.2 Their Ground in Abstraction 1.3 Abstraction in Physics 2 The Description of Space and Time 2.1 Extensions and Durations 2.2 Descriptive Definitions 2.3 Frames of Reference 2.4 Transformations 2.5 Generalized Geometry 2.6 A Logical Note 3 The Abstract Intelligibility of Space and Time 3.1 The Theorem 3.2 Euclidean Geometry 3.3 Absolute Space 3.4 Simultaneity 3.5 Motion and Time 3.6 The Principle at Issue 4 Rods and Clocks 4.1 The Elementary Paradox 4.2 The Generic Notion of Measurement 4.3 Differentiations of the Generic Notion of Measurement 5 The Concrete Intelligibility of Space and Time

6 Common Sense and Its Subject

2.7.1 Scotosis 2.7.2 Repression 2.7.3 Inhibition 2.7.4 Performance 2.7.5 A Common Problem 2.7.6 A Piece of Evidence 2.7.7 A Note on Method

1 Common Sense as Intellectual 2 The Subjective Field of Common Sense 2.1 Patterns of Experience 2.2 The Biological Pattern of Experience 2.3 The Aesthetic Pattern of Experience 2.4 The Intellectual Pattern of Experience 2.5 The Dramatic Pattern of Experience 2.6 Elements in the Dramatic Subject 2.7 Dramatic Bias

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 8.1 The Longer Cycle 8.2 Implications of the Longer Cycle 8.3 Alternatives of the Longer Cycle 8.4 Reversal of the Longer Cycle 8.5 Culture and Reversal 8.6 Cosmopolis 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

5.1 The Source of Commonsense Judgments 5.2 The Object of Commonsense Judgments 5.3 Commonsense Judgment and Empirical Science PART TWO: INSIGHT AS KNOWLEDGE

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

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

4.1 Deductive Methods 4.2 Universal Doubt 4.3 Empiricism 4.4 Commonsense Eclecticism 4.5 Hegelian Dialectic 4.6 Scientific Method and Philosophy

1 The Underlying Problem 2 A Definition of Metaphysics 3 Method in Metaphysics 4 The Dialectic of Method in Metaphysics

15 Elements of Metaphysics

7.1 General Notions 7.2 Organic Development 7.3 Psychic and Intellectual Development 7.4 Human Development 7.5 Counterpositions

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

3.1 What Are the Metaphysical Elements? 3.2 Cognitional or Ontological Elements? 3.3 The Nature of Metaphysical Equivalence 3.4 The Significance of Metaphysical Equivalence 4.1 The Unity of the Proportionate Universe 4.2 The Unity of a Concrete Being 4.3 The Unity of Man 4.4 Summary

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

1.1 The Sense of the Unknown 1.2 The Genesis of Adequate Self-knowledge 1.3 Mythic Consciousness 1.4 Myth and Metaphysics 1.5 Myth and Allegory 1.6 The Notion of Mystery 2.1 The Criterion of Truth 2.2 The Definition of Truth 2.3 The Ontological Aspect of Truth 2.4 Truth and Expression 2.5 The Appropriation of Truth 3.1 The Problem 3.2 The Notion of a Universal Viewpoint 3.3 Levels and Sequences of Expression 3.4 Limitations of the Treatise 3.5 Interpretation and Method 3.6 The Sketch 3.7 Counterpositions 3.8 Some Canons for a Methodical Hermeneutics 3.9 Conclusion

1 Metaphysics, Mystery, and Myth 2 The Notion of Truth 3 The Truth of Interpretation

18 The Possibility of Ethics

1.1 Levels of the Good 1.2 The Notion of Will 1.3 The Notion of Value 1.4 The Method of Ethics 1.5 The Ontology of the Good 2.1 The Significance of Statistical Residues 2.2 The Underlying Sensitive Flow 2.3 The Practical Insight 2.4 Practical Reflection 2.5 The Decision 2.6 Freedom 3.1 Essential and Effective Freedom 3.2 Conditions of Effective Freedom 3.3 Possible Functions of Satire and Humor 3.4 Moral Impotence 3.5 The Problem of Liberation

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

4.1 The General Context of Belief 4.2 The Analysis of Belief 4.3 The Critique of Beliefs 4.4 A Logical Note

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 Index

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