Lonergan on Philosophic Pluralism : The Polymorphism of Conciousness as the Key to Philosophy

Table of Contents

• Contents 6
• Acknowledgments 12
• Introduction: Contextualizing the Inquiry into Polymorphic Consciousness and Philosophical Pluralism 16
• 1 The Aim of the Inquiry 17
• 2 Lonergan's Approach to Philosophy: Self-Appropriation and Cognitional Analysis 20
• 2.1 Introduction: The Method of Self-Appropriation and Cognitional Analysis 20
• 2.2 Self-Appropriation and the Nature of Consciousness: 'Consciousness-in' and 'Consciousness-of' 24
• 2.3 What Does Self-Appropriation Discover? Levels of Consciousness and the Human Subject as a Movement of Self-Transcendence 27
• 2.4 Why Is Self-Appropriation So Important? Cognitional Self-Appropriation and Intellectual Conversion 36
• 2.5 The Further Dimensions of Self-Appropriation 39
• 2.6 The Philosophical Significance of Patterns and Differentiations 42
• 1 Aims/Relevance/Procedure 45
• 1 A Metaphilosophical Project? 45
• 2 Ambiguities about Polymorphism 52
• 2.1 A Typical Example of Ambiguity 52
• 2.2 Polymorphism and the Moving Viewpoint 53
• 2.3 The Dialectical Application of Polymorphism 55
• 2.4 An Ontological or Cognitional Account? 56
• 2.5 The Range of Patterns: Bimorphism or Polymorphism? 57
• 2.6 Polymorphism: Mixing and Blending of Patterns, or Shifts in Orientations of the Subject? 58
• 2.7 The Confusion between Patterns and Differentiations 58
• 2.8 Is Polymorphism the One and Only Key to Philosophic Difference? 59
• 3 Responding to the Difficulties: Basic Aims 60
• 4 The Shape of the Argument 64
• 5 Questions of Interpretation 66
• 6 Self-Appropriation and Interpretation 66
• 2 Grounding Polymorphism: Polymorphism and the Structure of Human Being 68
• 1 Introduction 68
• 2 The Structure of the Human Being 69
• 3 Human Beings and the World Process of Emergent Probability: Chapter 4 of Insight 70
• 4 Levels of Science and Levels of Human Being: Chapter 6 of Insight 72
• 5 The Human Being and the Human Community: Chapter 7 of Insight 74
• 6 Things, Bodies, and Human Beings: Chapter 8 of Insight 77
• 7 A Further Level of Freedom: Full Self-Transcendence? 81
• 8 Self-Affirmation and the Unity of Consciousness: Chapter 11 of Insight 83
• 9 Human Development: Chapter 15 of Insight 84
• 10 Development and Human Development 87
• 11 The Unity of the Human Person: Chapter 16 of Insight 93
• 12 Insight and File 713: Human Solidarity and the Concrete Universal 96
• 13 Grounding Polymorphism? 101
• 3 Polymorphism in Insight: Patterns of Experience 109
• 1 Introduction 109
• 2 The Initial Context of Chapter 14 110
• A: THE PATTERNS OF EXPERIENCE IN CHAPTER 6 112
• 3 What Is a Pattern of Experience? 112
• 4 Further Clarifications: Patterns as 'Intelligible Relations' in the Subject's Conscious Flow 113
• B: PARTICULAR PATTERNS OF EXPERIENCE 118
• 5 The Biological Pattern 118
• 6 The Aesthetic Pattern and the Artistic Pattern 126
• 7 The Intellectual Pattern 132
• 8 The Dramatic Pattern 140
• 9 Concluding Remarks 150
• 4 Further Patterns of Experience? 151
• 1 Introduction 151
• 2 The Practical Pattern 155
• 3 The Mystical Pattern 163
• 4 The Symbolic Pattern: The General Case 166
• 5 Appropriating Symbolic Consciousness 170
• 6 The Ethical Pattern 173
• 7 Concluding Remarks 181
• 5 Polymorphism: The One and Only Key to Philosophy? 183
• 1 Introduction 183
• A: THE INITIAL CONTEXT: POLYMORPHISM AND THE DIALECTIC OF PHILOSOPHY 187
• 2 Context and Questions 187
• 3 Philosophical Dialectics – Negative and Positive 187
• B: A BASIC SURVEY OF LONERGAN'S MEANINGS OF POLYMORPHISM 190
• 4 Polymorphism and Pluralism: The Underlying Problem 190
• 5 The Intellectualist Orientation of the Heuristic Structure of Philosophical Unity 194
• 6 Polymorphism and the Definition of Metaphysics 195
• 7 Polymorphism and Method in Metaphysics 197
• 8 The Dialectic of Method in Metaphysics 203
• C: TOWARDS INTEGRAL POLYMORPHISM AND A COMPREHENSIVE METAPHILOSOPHY 210
• 9 Towards Integral Polymorphism 210
• 10 Towards a Comprehensive Metaphilosophy 213
• 6 Polymorphism in Method in Theology 217
• 1 Introduction 217
• A: WHAT IS DIFFERENTIATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS? 219
• 2 Method 219
• 3 The Human Good 219
• 4 Meaning 222
• 5 Stages of Meaning – The Main Differentiations 227
• 6 Functional Specialties 234
• 7 Dialectic 235
• 8 Horizons 235
• 9 Horizons and Fully Differentiated Consciousness 236
• 10 Foundations 237
• 11 The Movement of Differentiations 238
• 12 Doctrines 241
• B: EMERGING POSITIONS ON DIFFERENTIATION 243
• 13 What Is Differentiation of Consciousness? 244
• 14 Differentiation as Developmental Polymorphism 247
• 15 Differentiations as a Key to Philosophy 251
• An Additional Note on Conversions 254
• Concluding Remarks: Towards a Lonerganian Metaphilosophy 255
• 1 Preliminary 255
• 2 The Scope of Polymorphism 255
• 3 Can Polymorphism Bear the Weight of a Developed Metaphilosophy? 260
• 4 A Survey of Lonerganian Metaphilosophers 260
• 4.1 Michael McCarthy 261
• 4.2 Michael Vertin 262
• 4.3 Matthew Lamb 263
• 4.4 Mark Morelli 265
• 4.5 Frank Braio 266
• 5 Towards a Lonerganian Metaphilosophy 269
• 6 Relevance of Polymorphism for Contemporary Philosophy 269
• 6.1 Postmodernism 269
• 6.2 Lonergan and Postmodernism: Polymorphism and Difference 271
• 6.3 Comparative Philosophy 274
• 6.4 A Lonerganian Contribution 277
• Bibliography 282
• Abbreviations 282
• Works by Bernard Lonergan 282
• Works by Other Authors 283
• Index 290
• A 290
• B 291
• C 292
• D 294
• E 296
• F 296
• G 297
• H 297
• I 298
• J 300
• K 300
• L 300
• M 301
• N 303
• O 303
• P 303
• Q 306
• R 306
• S 307
• T 309
• U 309
• V 310
• W 310