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Year: 2005
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ISBN 10: 0802038751 
ISBN 13: 9781442613157
Author: William A Mathews

Insight is widely regarded as Bernard Lonergan’s masterwork. Worked out over a period of twenty-eight years, its aim was to present a theory of human knowing that underpinned the wide range of disciplines it addressed and their distinctive insights. In Lonergan’s Quest, William A. Mathews details the genesis, researching, composition, and question structure of Insight.

The path to Insight began for Lonergan in the 1920s with his studies in philosophy at Heythrop College. Questioning many of the accepted truths of those studies, Lonergan’s interests moved to economics while teaching in Depression-era Montreal, and later to theology and the philosophy of history while studying in Rome. The writing of Insight began in earnest in 1949 and soon evolved into Lonergan’s masterpiece, encompassing his many divergent, but philosophically coherent, streams of thought.

An intellectual biography, Lonergan’s Quest locates Insight centrally within the broader philosophical tradition, presenting a new solution to the problem of the mind-world relation as posed by Immanuel Kant, as well as addressing the nature of consciousness. The book demonstrates that the desire of the human mind is also a narrative in time through which the intellectual identity of the author is forged and their relation with the text established.

Lonergan s quest a study of desire in the authoring of Insight 1st Table of contents:

I: TRADITIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DESIRE: THE APPRENTICESHIP OF A PROBLEM SOLVER, 1904–1940

  1. Quebec Origins: A Classics Student, an Illness, and a Surprising Vocation

    • Early influences and the role of personal illness in shaping the author’s vocation.

  2. Heythrop: Awakening to the Problem of Knowledge

    • The transition from classical studies to a more focused inquiry into knowledge.

  3. Puzzled in Montreal by the Depression and Plato’s Ideas

    • Wrestling with philosophical ideas amidst the context of the Great Depression.

  4. Struggling with History and Reality in Rome before the War

    • Intellectual struggles during a formative period in Rome before WWII.

  5. Postgraduate Studies in Theology: A New Road Taken

    • A shift towards theological studies, marking a key turning point in intellectual development.

II: FINDING AND FOLLOWING THE GOLDEN CORD OF THE HEART’S DESIRE

  1. Economics or Cognitional Theory: Towards Desire’s Decisions

    • The internal debate between pursuing economics or delving deeper into the nature of cognition and knowledge.

  2. Insights into Phantasms as the Origins of Words

    • Exploring the connection between mental images (phantasms) and the formation of language.

  3. Thought and Reality: Measuring the Kantian Bridge

    • Investigating the relationship between thought and reality through the lens of Kantian philosophy.

  4. Aquinas on Cognition and Its Transcendence

    • A reflection on Aquinas’ view of cognition and its transcendence beyond mere sensory knowledge.

  5. Toronto, the Operations of the Mind, and a Creative Illness

  • The experience in Toronto, highlighting the relationship between the operations of the mind and a “creative illness” as a catalyst for thought.

  1. Human Insights as Reflections of the Divine Nature

  • Philosophical musings on human insights and their potential divine origin.

III: COMPOSING INSIGHT: THE ARTISTRY OF DESIRE

The Proto-Insight, 1949–1951

  1. 1949: The Vision of the First Beginning

  • A significant philosophical realization or vision marking the beginning of a deeper inquiry.

  1. Experimenting with the Insights of Mathematicians and Scientists

  • Drawing from scientific and mathematical thought to inform philosophical inquiries.

  1. The Breakthrough to Cognitional Structure

  • The discovery or development of a new understanding of how cognition operates.

  1. The Mind’s Desire as the Key to the Relation of Thought and Reality

  • Understanding the role of desire in bridging the gap between thought and reality.

  1. Exploring the Real Known World: A Metaphysical Beginning

  • Metaphysical explorations that mark a new beginning in the author’s thinking.

The Autograph, 1951–1953

  1. Finally Beginning in the Middle: Common Sense, Consciousness, and Self-Affirmation

  • A focus on common sense, self-awareness, and how these relate to the philosophical process.

  1. Insights into Emergent Probability

  • Philosophical exploration of the concept of emergent probability.

  1. Insights into the Dialectical Development of Common Sense

  • Investigating how common sense evolves through dialectical reasoning.

  1. Insights into the Irreducibility of Things

  • Understanding the irreducibility of the elements of the world.

  1. Insights into Philosophical Method, Polymorphism, and Isomorphism

  • A deeper dive into the philosophical methods and concepts of polymorphism and isomorphism.

  1. Process Metaphysics: Finality, Development, the Human Image

  • The exploration of process metaphysics and its implications for human nature.

  1. On Mythic and Philosophical Consciousness: Truth and Its Expression and Interpretation

  • Delving into the mythic versus philosophical ways of understanding truth and its expression.

  1. The Cognitional and the Ethical

  • Examining the relationship between cognition and ethics.

  1. Questions and Insights in Religion

  • Philosophical reflections on religious questions and insights.

  1. Introduction, Epilogue, Prefaces, Publication

  • Discussion of the structure of the book and its broader implications.

  1. Epilogue: Recollecting the Human Mystery

  • The conclusion reflecting on the human journey of understanding, philosophy, and the mystery of existence.

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