In his influential philosophical work Insight, Bernard Lonergan made the intriguing and problematic claim that "the polymorphism of consciousness is the one and only key to philosophy." In Lonergan on Philosophical Pluralism, Gerard Walmsley examines Lonergan's many discussions of the different form
Lonergan on Philosophic Pluralism: The Polymorphism of Conciousness as the Key to Philosophy
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- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 309
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Gerard Walmsley examines Lonergan's many discussions of the different forms of human consciousness, as well as his sustained responses to the problems raised by philosophical and cultural pluralism.
โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contextualizing the Inquiry into Polymorphic Consciousness and Philosophical Pluralism
1. Aims/Relevance/Procedure
2. Grounding Polymorphism: Polymorphism and the Structure of Human Being
3. Polymorphism in Insight: Patterns of Experience
4. Further Patterns of Experience?
5. Polymorphism: The One and Only Key to Philosophy?
6. Polymorphism in Method in Theology
Concluding Remarks: Towards a Lonerganian Metaphilosophy
Bibliography
Index
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