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In
Lonergan’s Quest, William A. Mathews details the genesis, researching, composition, and question structure of
Insight.
List of contents
Preface
- Introduction: Desire and the Shaping of an Author
TRADITIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DESIRE: THE APPRENTICESHIP OF A PROBLEM SOLVER, 1904–1940 Quebec Origins: A Classics Student, an Illness, and a Surprising Vocation Heythrop: Awakening to the Problem of Knowledge Puzzled in Montreal by the Depression and Plato’s Ideas Struggling with History and Reality in Rome before the War Postgraduate Studies in Theology: A New Road Taken
FINDING AND FOLLOWING THE GOLDEN CORD OF THE HEART’S DESIRE Economics or Cognitional Theory: Towards Desire’s Decisions Insights into Phantasms as the Origins of Words Thought and Reality: Measuring the Kantian Bridge Aquinas on Cognition and Its Transcendence Toronto, the Operations of the Mind, and a Creative Illness Human Insights as Reflections of the Divine Nature
COMPOSING INSIGHT: THE ARTISTRY OF DESIRE The Proto-Insight, 1949–1951
1949: The Vision of the First Beginning Experimenting with the Insights of Mathematicians and Scientists The Breakthrough to Cognitional Structure The Mind’s Desire as the Key to the Relation of Thought and Reality Exploring the Real Known World: A Metaphysical Beginning
The Autograph, 1951–1953
Finally Beginning in the Middle: Common Sense, Consciousness, and Self-Affirmation Insights into Emergent Probability Insights into the Dialectical Development of Common Sense Insights into the Irreducibility of Things Insights into Philosophical Method, Polymorphism, and Isomorphism Process Metaphysics: Finality, Development, the Human Image On Mythic and Philosophical Consciousness: Truth and Its Expression and Interpretation The Cognitional and the Ethical Questions and Insights in Religion Introduction, Epilogue, Prefaces, Publication Epilogue: Recollecting the Human Mystery Notes
Bibliography
Benard Lonergan Index
General Index
About the author
By William A. Mathews
Summary
In Lonergan’s Quest, William A. Mathews details the genesis, researching, composition, and question structure of Insight.
