Understanding and Being : : The Halifax Lectures on Insight, Volume 5 / / Bernard Lonergan; ed. by Elizabeth Morelli, Mark Morelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Lonergan, Bernard,
• MitwirkendeR: Crowe, Frederick E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Morelli, Elizabeth,; Morelli, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (467 p.)

Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) was a noted Canadian philosopher and theologian. He devoted his life to articulating a generalized method of inquiry and its implications, not only for the human and natural sciences, but also for a better world and a higher quality of human life. His own clear vision showed him the need to overcome the terrible fragmentation of knowledge and life in our time. The struggle to achieve an integrated view is the theme that unified the body of his work. In the history of that struggle, Understanding and Being plays a central role. Published a year after his profound and complex Insight, it is the edited transcription of some thirty hours of Lonergan's lectures on that seminal book. Understanding and Being serves as a guide to the very challenging terrain of Insight, or, as one commentator put it, if Insight is the Everest in the range of Lonergan's works, Understanding and Being is the approach through rolling foothills. This edition, the second, incorporates more of the historical setting in the text and adds a wealth of explanatory notes, as well as previously unedited discussions that followed the lectures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- LECTURES -- 1 Self-appropriation and Insight -- 2 Elements of Understanding -- 3 The Dynamic Aspect of Knowing -- 4 Common Sense -- 5 Judgment -- 6 Knowing and Being -- 7 The A Priori and Objectivity -- 8 A Definition of Metaphysics -- 9 Metaphysical Analysis and Metaphysical Integration -- 10 Ethics and God -- EVENING DISCUSSIONS -- Introduction -- Discussion 1 -- Discussion 2 -- Discussion 3 -- Discussion 4 -- Discussion 5 -- Lexicon of Latin and Greek Words and Phrases -- Editorial Notes -- Works of Lonergan Referred to in Editorial Notes -- Index of Lectures and Discussions