Quest for Self-Knowledge · an Essay in Lonergan's Philosophy (Lonergan Studies) by Flanagan, Joseph -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Introduction

1 Insight

1 Insight 2 Defining 3 Higher Viewpoints 4 Inverse Insight 5 Insight as Self-Constitutive 6 Empirical Residue

2 Heuristic Structures

1 History of Mathematics 1a Renaissance Mathematics 1b Nineteenth-Century Mathematics 2 History of Modern Physics 2a From Copernicus to Newton 2b Newton’s New World-Order 2c From Newton to Contemporary Physics 3 Statistical Science

3 Common Sense

1 Common-Sense Knowing 2 Symbolic Patterns of Knowing 3 Dramatic Pattern of Experience 4 Biases 4a Dramatic Bias 4b Individual Bias 4c Group Bias 4d General Bias 5 Long Cycle of Decline 6 Summary

4 The World-Order of Things

1 Heuristic Structures 2 Classical Heuristic Structures 3 Statistical Heuristic Structures 4 Schemes of Recurrence 5 Genetic Heuristic Structures 6 Dialectical Heuristic Structures 7 World-Order 8 Things

5 Self-Affirming Knower

1 Knowing vs Meaning 2 Self as Judger 2a Common-Sense Judgments 2b Scientific Judgments 3 Self as Knower 3a Consciousness 3b Self-Affirmation 4 Notion of Being 5 Being as Unrestricted 5a Notion of Being as Spontaneous 5b All-Pervasive Notion of Being 6 Notion of Objectivity 7 Summary

6 Metaphysics

1 Traditional Metaphysics 2 Metaphysics: Terms and Relations 3 Explanatory Genera and Species 4 Potency and Limit 5 Vertical Finality 6 Genetic Method 7 The Authentic, Objective Known 8 Metaphysics of History 8a Expressions of Meaning vs Truth of Meaning 8b Resumption of Metaphysics of History 9 Summary

7 Ethics

1 Methodical Ethics 2 First Ethical Question 2a Belief 2b Love 2c Symbolic Reasoning (Role of Imagination) 2d Culture 3 Second Ethical Question 4 Moral Philosophy of History 5 Third Ethical Question 6 Human Freedom 7 Summary

8 Religion

1 Questions about God 2 Religious Experience 3 Primitive Religion 4 The Bible as Sacred History 5 Dialectic of Religious Expression 6 Faith and Beliefs 7 Stages of Religious History 8 Summary Epilogue: Method as Conversion Notes Bibliography Index