The Importance of Insight : : Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin / / David S. Liptay, John J Liptay.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Liptay, David S.,; Liptay, John J,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Lonergan Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Understanding Insight -- Lonergan's Transpositions of Augustine and Aquinas: Exploratory Suggestions / Lamb, Matthew -- Obstacles to the Implementation of Lonergan's Solution to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning / Morelli, Mark D. -- Empirical Consciousness in Insight: Is Our Conception Too Narrow? / Doran, Robert M. -- The Excessive Meaning of the Imaginal and Indirect Communication in Methodical Philosophy / McGrath, S.J. -- PART TWO: Insight in Theology -- Is God Free to Create or Not Create? / Crowe, Frederick E. -- Revelation and/as Insight / Hefling, Charles -- Two Accounts of Reception / O'Gara, Margaret -- PART THREE: Insight in Ethics and Politics -- The Ethics of Authenticity and the Human Good, in Honour of Michael Vertin, an Authentic Colleague / Lawrence, Fred -- Risk, Gratitude, and Love: Grounding Authentic Moral Deliberation / Crysdale, Cynthia S.W. -- Moral Education for Health Care Professionals / Sullivan, William F. / Heng, John -- Democracy, Sublation, and the Scale of Values / Melchin, Kenneth R. -- PART FOUR: Further Thoughts on Insight -- PART FOUR: Further Thoughts on Insight / McShane, Philip -- Michael Vertin Bibliography -- Contributors