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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Lonergan Studies |
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Lonergan studies.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contextualizing the Inquiry into Polymorphic Consciousness and Philosophical Pluralism -- 1 The Aim of the Inquiry -- 2 Lonergan's Approach to Philosophy: Self-Appropriation and Cognitional Analysis -- 2.1 Introduction: The Method of Self-Appropriation and Cognitional Analysis -- 2.2 Self-Appropriation and the Nature of Consciousness: 'Consciousness-in' and 'Consciousness-of' -- 2.3 What Does Self-Appropriation Discover? Levels of Consciousness and the Human Subject as a Movement of Self-Transcendence -- 2.4 Why Is Self-Appropriation So Important? Cognitional Self-Appropriation and Intellectual Conversion -- 2.5 The Further Dimensions of Self-Appropriation -- 2.6 The Philosophical Significance of Patterns and Differentiations -- 1 Aims/Relevance/Procedure -- 1 A Metaphilosophical Project? -- 2 Ambiguities about Polymorphism -- 2.1 A Typical Example of Ambiguity -- 2.2 Polymorphism and the Moving Viewpoint -- 2.3 The Dialectical Application of Polymorphism -- 2.4 An Ontological or Cognitional Account? -- 2.5 The Range of Patterns: Bimorphism or Polymorphism? -- 2.6 Polymorphism: Mixing and Blending of Patterns, or Shifts in Orientations of the Subject? -- 2.7 The Confusion between Patterns and Differentiations -- 2.8 Is Polymorphism the One and Only Key to Philosophic Difference? -- 3 Responding to the Difficulties: Basic Aims -- 4 The Shape of the Argument -- 5 Questions of Interpretation -- 6 Self-Appropriation and Interpretation -- 2 Grounding Polymorphism: Polymorphism and the Structure of Human Being -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Structure of the Human Being -- 3 Human Beings and the World Process of Emergent Probability: Chapter 4 of Insight -- 4 Levels of Science and Levels of Human Being: Chapter 6 of Insight -- 5 The Human Being and the Human Community: Chapter 7 of Insight |
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6 Things, Bodies, and Human Beings: Chapter 8 of Insight -- 7 A Further Level of Freedom: Full Self-Transcendence? -- 8 Self-Affirmation and the Unity of Consciousness: Chapter 11 of Insight -- 9 Human Development: Chapter 15 of Insight -- 10 Development and Human Development -- 11 The Unity of the Human Person: Chapter 16 of Insight -- 12 Insight and File 713: Human Solidarity and the Concrete Universal -- 13 Grounding Polymorphism? -- 3 Polymorphism in Insight: Patterns of Experience -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Initial Context of Chapter 14 -- A: THE PATTERNS OF EXPERIENCE IN CHAPTER 6 -- 3 What Is a Pattern of Experience? -- 4 Further Clarifications: Patterns as 'Intelligible Relations' in the Subject's Conscious Flow -- B: PARTICULAR PATTERNS OF EXPERIENCE -- 5 The Biological Pattern -- 6 The Aesthetic Pattern and the Artistic Pattern -- 7 The Intellectual Pattern -- 8 The Dramatic Pattern -- 9 Concluding Remarks -- 4 Further Patterns of Experience? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Practical Pattern -- 3 The Mystical Pattern -- 4 The Symbolic Pattern: The General Case -- 5 Appropriating Symbolic Consciousness -- 6 The Ethical Pattern -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- 5 Polymorphism: The One and Only Key to Philosophy? -- 1 Introduction -- A: THE INITIAL CONTEXT: POLYMORPHISM AND THE DIALECTIC OF PHILOSOPHY -- 2 Context and Questions -- 3 Philosophical Dialectics -- Negative and Positive -- B: A BASIC SURVEY OF LONERGAN'S MEANINGS OF POLYMORPHISM -- 4 Polymorphism and Pluralism: The Underlying Problem -- 5 The Intellectualist Orientation of the Heuristic Structure of Philosophical Unity -- 6 Polymorphism and the Definition of Metaphysics -- 7 Polymorphism and Method in Metaphysics -- 8 The Dialectic of Method in Metaphysics -- C: TOWARDS INTEGRAL POLYMORPHISM AND A COMPREHENSIVE METAPHILOSOPHY -- 9 Towards Integral Polymorphism |
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10 Towards a Comprehensive Metaphilosophy -- 6 Polymorphism in Method in Theology -- 1 Introduction -- A: WHAT IS DIFFERENTIATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS? -- 2 Method -- 3 The Human Good -- 4 Meaning -- 5 Stages of Meaning -- The Main Differentiations -- 6 Functional Specialties -- 7 Dialectic -- 8 Horizons -- 9 Horizons and Fully Differentiated Consciousness -- 10 Foundations -- 11 The Movement of Differentiations -- 12 Doctrines -- B: EMERGING POSITIONS ON DIFFERENTIATION -- 13 What Is Differentiation of Consciousness? -- 14 Differentiation as Developmental Polymorphism -- 15 Differentiations as a Key to Philosophy -- An Additional Note on Conversions -- Concluding Remarks: Towards a Lonerganian Metaphilosophy -- 1 Preliminary -- 2 The Scope of Polymorphism -- 3 Can Polymorphism Bear the Weight of a Developed Metaphilosophy? -- 4 A Survey of Lonerganian Metaphilosophers -- 4.1 Michael McCarthy -- 4.2 Michael Vertin -- 4.3 Matthew Lamb -- 4.4 Mark Morelli -- 4.5 Frank Braio -- 5 Towards a Lonerganian Metaphilosophy -- 6 Relevance of Polymorphism for Contemporary Philosophy -- 6.1 Postmodernism -- 6.2 Lonergan and Postmodernism: Polymorphism and Difference -- 6.3 Comparative Philosophy -- 6.4 A Lonerganian Contribution -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Works by Bernard Lonergan -- Works by Other Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W |
| Summary |
Gerard Walmsley examines Lonergan's many discussions of the different forms of human consciousness, as well as his sustained responses to the problems raised by philosophical and cultural pluralism |
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Print version record |
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Lonergan, Bernard J. F
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| SUBJECT |
Lonergan, Bernard J. F. fast |
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Pluralism.
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Difference (Philosophy)
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Consciousness.
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pluralism.
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Consciousness
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Difference (Philosophy)
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Pluralism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442688513 |
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1442688513 |
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