Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronot, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading Lonergan scholars. These essays investigate the importance of Lonergan's articulation of insight, and how it can be applied within the fields of cognitional theory, theology, ethics, and politics. The contributors address several issues emerging from the post-Enlightenment crisis of meaning and value, as well as more specific contemporary concerns, such as the nature of Christian revelation, the articulation of Church doctrine, and the ethical training health care professionals should receive.
By indicating what there is to be gained by understanding and applying insight in a number of different contexts, this collection highlights the relevance of Lonergan's thought in the contemporary intellectual and cultural milieu, and, at the same time, makes a significant contribution to the development of Lonergan's thought itself. In this way, The Importance of Insight offers a window into cutting-edge Lonergan scholarship and some of its central concerns and preoccupations.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [227]-229
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 121
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780802092175 9781442684942
- LCCN
- B995.L654
- LCCN Item number
- I46 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 229 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00222079 (OCoLC)753327644 (CaOOCEL)424336
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Introduction 8
- PART ONE: Understanding Insight 16
- Lonergan’s Transpositions of Augustine and Aquinas: Exploratory Suggestions 18
- Obstacles to the Implementation of Lonergan’s Solution to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning 37
- Empirical Consciousness in Insight: Is Our Conception Too Narrow? 64
- The Excessive Meaning of the Imaginal and Indirect Communication in Methodical Philosophy 79
- PART TWO: Insight in Theology 98
- Is God Free to Create or Not Create? 100
- Revelation and/as Insight 112
- Two Accounts of Reception 131
- PART THREE: Insight in Ethics and Politics 140
- The Ethics of Authenticity and the Human Good, in Honour of Michael Vertin, an Authentic Colleague 142
- Risk, Gratitude, and Love: Grounding Authentic Moral Deliberation 166
- Moral Education for Health Care Professionals 187
- Democracy, Sublation, and the Scale of Values 198
- PART FOUR: Further Thoughts on Insight 212
- The Importance of Rescuing Insight 214
- Michael Vertin Bibliography 242
- Contributors 246
