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Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it.
In Lonergan's own words: 'Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, and invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.'
The editors of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan have established the definitive text for Insight after examining all the variant forms in Lonergan's manuscripts and papers. The volume includes introductory material and annotation to enable the reader to appreciate more fully this challenging work.
- Sales Rank: #4796652 in Books
- Published on: 1965
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 785 pages
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'One of the great philosophical treatises of the century'
(G.F. Davidson Studies) About the Author
Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), a professor of theology, taught at Regis College, Harvard University, and Boston College. An established author known for his Insight and Method in Theology, Lonergan received numerous honorary doctorates, was a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1971 and was named as an original member of the International Theological Commission by Pope Paul VI.
Frederick E. Crowe is a co-founder of the Lonergan Research Institute and a professor emeritus at the Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto.
Robert M. Doran is the Emmett Doerr Chair in Systematic Theology and a professor in the Department of Theology at Marquette University. He is the general editor of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
My 2 cents on 'Insight.'
By FB
In this book are the initial keys to the constructive re-constitution of world understanding. Purchase it and study it as a life's project. Lonergan teaches the reader how to explore him or herself. And in so doing to exit the reductive or outdated world mis-understandings of: positivism, post-modernism, classical Christian Thomism, linguistic analysis, psychology (reductively construed), the natural and social sciences, etc. You will have
to help complete his project. (For that you also will have to read (& read between the lines of) his 'Method in Theology.' But this is one of the most seminal and breath-taking works written in the 20th century. My opinion is---don't miss it. And seek out others who are working on it; those who
have the daring and spirit that you acquire while slowly trying to make sense of it; of yourself.... Best wishes on this. And for whatever road you wind up choosing.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Deserves a wide readership...
By Brian C.
This review is written with a very particular audience in mind: non-Christians. I will say upfront that I was baptized Catholic, although I am a bit of a lapsed Catholic, I still have nothing against Catholicism. However, I think the fact that Bernard Lonergan was a Jesuit priest has limited his mass appeal to some degree among non-Christians, which I think is a shame, since I think the insights expressed in this book are of universal interest. Bernard Lonergan works out a very interesting cognitional theory that is able to solve some very long-standing philosophical problems in compelling ways. His book deserves a wide readership. So, I would like to make a case for why I think philosophers of all stripes should read this book, and will benefit from reading this book, whatever their religious preferences happen to be.
Lonergan has, what I think, is a really important insight that, for some reason, has gone virtually unnoticed in the history of philosophy. Lonergan realizes that knowing, or cognition, is not the same thing as seeing or taking a look. It is amazing how many philosophical problems are the result of treating knowledge as if it were the same thing as simply taking a look. Why, for example, does Kant argue we have no access to the noumenon? Because it can never be an object of sensible intuition. Kant's ideal of knowledge is based on sensible intuition, but, in reality human knowing is really three interrelated sets of operations: experiencing, understanding, and judgment. Experience provides the data for our questioning. However, experience is not just a neutral stream. There are different patterns of experience and those different patterns of experience give rise to different sets of questions and different sets of insights.
Understanding is the second step involved in human cognition. Understanding is the moment of insight. It is amazing how the moment of insight has been systematically neglected in epistemology. Lonergan brings the moment of insight to the center of the stage. Lonergan rightly points out that insight is more than just the grasp of data. He gives the example of a detective story to illustrate his point. We can have all the clues laid out before us and still be unable to figure out who the culprit is. That shows that the moment of insight is more than just a grasp of data. It is a grasp of the immanent intelligibility inherent in the data and it eventuates in the formulation of an hypothesis.
But our hypotheses can be wrong. That is where judgment comes in. Judgments are answers to what Lonergan calls questions of reflection. Questions of reflection ask "Is it so?" and they are answered either "Yes" or "No". The way we go about answering questions of reflection is by searching for what Lonergan calls the virtually unconditioned. The formally unconditioned is something that is necessary and has no conditions (God's necessary existence, for example). The virtually unconditioned is not absolutely necessary. It has conditions, but those conditions are fulfilled. If we grasp the conditions of something, and we grasp that they are in fact fulfilled, then we grasp the virtually unconditioned and we can answer "Yes" to our question of reflection.
This is the barest outline of the cognitional theory Lonergan works out in this book and, in that simple form, it probably does not seem that impressive. But it is amazing how many long-standing philosophical problems Lonergan is able to solve based on his cognitional theory. I can merely give the barest hint of a few of them here. For example, Lonergan is able to resolve the conflict between various sets of insights: those of common sense and scientific insights for example (this conflict is what the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars called the conflict between the manifest and the scientific image of man). Lonergan is also able to solve Meno's problem through his notion of anticipatory heuristic structures. Lonergan is able to solve the problem of primary and secondary qualities through his distinction between pure and experiential conjugates.
Most importantly, Lonergan is able to solve some important problems in the contemporary philosophy of science. For example, since Kuhn we have known that the history of science is not a linear history of progress. There are discontinuities. This has, in some quarters, given rise to relativistic views. Paradigms are incommensurable and there is no way to adopt a neutral stance to determine which paradigm is superior, etc.. Lonergan is able to account for the dynamic transformation in paradigms without falling into relativism. Lonergan sees the progress of science in terms of the unchanging, but dynamic, structure of cognition itself. Science moves from data, to hypotheses, to new data. The formulation of hypotheses is the moment of insight where concepts are created. We are not, therefore, trapped in our concepts or in our paradigm. Obviously, I cannot really give a one paragraph summary of Lonergan's solution to such an important philosophical problem but I believe Lonergan's account of cognition is able to account for the genuine insights of people like Kuhn without the relativistic consequences.
Lonergan is also able to solve the problem of how we can have knowledge of what is transcendent. This has probably been the single biggest philosophical problem since Descartes. Virtually every major philosopher tried to find a way to solve it. Lonergan is able to solve the problem because he understands knowledge as three operations. What we know is not just what we see but what we judge to be the case. So, the example that Lonergan gives is: I can judge that I exist, I can judge that the typewriter exists, and I can judge that I am not the typewriter. Lonergan solves the problem through real distinctions. Through our acts of judgment we are able to make real distinctions. Lonergan was very influenced by Hegel but this is probably the major point in Lonergan's philosophy where he departs from Hegel.
I do not feel like my summary has really been adequate. There are a ton of interesting insights in this book that I have not even touched upon. In the second half of the book Lonergan develops a metaphysics based on his cognitional theory. Lonergan has interesting things to say about ethics, about myth, and about God. Lonergan also works out an ontology of emergence based on his notion of schemes of recurrence that is able to account for the irreducibility of the higher level sciences (like biology) to the lower level sciences (like physics). There is just so much of permanent value in this book. I recommend that anyone interested in epistemological and metaphysical questions get a copy of this book as soon as possible.
We tend to get trapped in our ways of thinking. We find problems and we try to solve them and we fail to see how the terms of the problem make it irresolvable, or, how background assumptions are getting in the way of solving the problems we are interested in. The best thing that a book can do, I think, is break through those habitual ways of thinking and open up new avenues of research, new means of approach to familiar problems, make new distinctions, and present new possible solutions to old standing problems. I have rarely read a book that was as successful in opening up new avenues of thought, in showing me the arbitrary nature of many of my most long-standing assumptions, than this book by Bernard Lonergan. I give it my very highest recommendation.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
It began with the practical/political question.
By mt
This is a huge book. Why would Lonergan have written such a huge book?
To understand why, we need to consider the philosophical and existential context from which the book arose. Lonergan thought all serious thought begins w/ the practical/political question: How do we best live in society? For Lonergan, this was Socrates' concern when he asked what makes a good life. But Lonergan thought that before we could answer that question, we had to backtrack to ask, What is real? What is the truth? This is the metaphysical question, which was a central concern of Aristotle. Aristotle's answers more or less reigned through the 1200's w/ Thomas Aquinas's adaptation of Aristotelian metaphysics. After than, scholars like Ockham, Scotus, Descartes, Hume, and Kant shifted the emphasis of philosophy to an even more fundamental question, that of epistemology: How do we know what's real or true?
Lonergan thought that question was still the man question of our times: reason or revelation? heart or mind? experience or belief? etc. Lon. thought all those things were important, and he tried to understand how they were interdependent, no matter which field one pursued. Insight the book is his main effort toward this end. It seeks to combine the best of ancient and medieval philosophy/theology with modern discoveries in math, science, history, and psychology. But it has one primary flaw in that it neglects largely the way our commitments or loves can shape our knowing (for better and worse). Lonergan's later work, Method in Theology, seeks to redress that (particularly ch 4).
Interestingly enough, Lon's own life traced the steps he outlined above. Growing up during the two world wars and the Great Depression, he wondered how we could best live. So he worked at economics. But by obedience to his Jesuit superiors, he went to philosophy and then theology. Near the end of his life, moved by Gustavo Gutierrez, the founder of liberation theology, he devoted the rest of his years to economics again. It was a kind of return after long years of withdrawal -- from the practical/political question, to the metaphysical, to the epistemological, and back to the practical/political.
One thing is missing here, namely that ultimately, Lonergan thought, one needs to answer ultimate questions. And these are questions for theology.
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