Empowering Bernard Lonergan's legacy
Subtitle: toward implementing an ethos for inquiry and a global ethics
By: John Raymaker ; [foreword by Philip McShane]
Contributors: McShane, Philip, writer of foreword
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780761860303; 9780761860310
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Contributions in theory of knowledge; Dialogue; Philosophy; Religions; Religious aspects; Interfaith relations; Relations; Religion; Contributions in theological method; Theory of Knowledge
Description: Raymaker offers an interdisciplinary approach to Bernard Lonergan's work. He presents a series of five "feedback matrices" to situate his work within a historical context. One can best empower Lonergan's legacy through a correct understanding and implementation of how the data of human consciousness affects all human knowledge and activities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Historical And Intercultural Backgrounds; title: Lonergan's Notions of "Matrix" and "Feedback"; title: ch. 1 Generalized Empirical Method (GEM) as Possible "Feedback Matrices"; title: First Historical Feedback Matrix: Situating GEM's Mediating, Transformative Roles; title: ch. 2 Two Further Feedback Matrices: Historical Implications; title: Metaphysical Equivalence and the Limitations of Various Analyses; title: A Second Historical Feedback Matrix: How Lonergan (GEM) Goes Beyond Aquinas; title: Third Historical Feedback Matrix: How Lonergan (GEM) Reconciles Galileo, Pascal, and Einstein; title: part II. An Ethically Empowering Foreground; title: Coordinating Lonergan's Legacy; title: ch. 3 Transitional Issues in Evaluating Holistic-GEM-FS Collaboration; title: ch. 4 Implementing the Functional Specialties in Two Phases; title: Fourth GEM-Fs Feedback Matrix: Functional Collaboration And Grounding Ethics; title: A First Complementarity-Dialectical Phase: Grounding GEM Operations; title: Transition to Fig. 3b's Second Cooperative Dialectical Phase; title: ch. 5 Fifth Feedback Matrix: A Structured IGEMA Operating as a Collaborative FS Feedback Matrix to Implement the Human Good.