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The importance of insight : essays in honour of Michael Vertin /

Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronot, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading Lonergan scholars.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Liptay, David S., Liptay, John J., Vertin, Michael, 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Series:Lonergan studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING INSIGHT. Lonergan's transpositions of Augustine and Aquinas: exploratory suggestions
  • Obstacles to the implementation of Lonergan's solution to the contemporary crisis of meaning
  • Empirical consciousness in Insight: is our conception too narrow?
  • The excessive meaning of the imaginal and indirect communication in methodical philosophy
  • PART TWO: INSIGHT IN THEOLOGY. Is god free to create or not create?
  • Revelation and/as insight
  • Two accounts of reception
  • PART THREE: INSIGHT IN ETHICS AND POLITICS. The ethics of authenticity and the human good, in honour of Michael Vertin, an authentic colleague
  • Risk, gratitude, and love: grounding authentic moral deliberation
  • Moral education for health care professionals
  • Democracy, sublation, and the scale of values
  • PART FOUR: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON INSIGHT. The importance of rescuing Insight
  • Michael Vertin bibliography
  • Contributors.