Understanding and Being: An Introduction and Companion to Insight

by Bernard J.F. Lonergan

This volume is an edited version, recreated from tapes and auditors' notes, of the ten lectures that Canadian Jesuit, Bernard Lonergan, delivered on his Insight.

Genres: Philosophy

Paperback

First published December 31, 1980

About the author

Fr. Bernard Joseph Frances Lonergan, SJ, CC (Ph.D., Theology, Gregorian University (Rome), 1939; B.A., University of London, 1930), was an ordained Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order. As an economist and philosopher-theologian in the Thomist tradition, he taught at Loyola College (Montreal) (now Concordia University), Regis College (now federated within the University of Toronto), the Pontifical Gregorian University, Harvard University, and Boston College. He was named by Pope Paul VI one of the original members of the International Theological Commission.

He is the author of Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972), which established what he called the Generalized Empirical Method (GEM). The University of Toronto Press is in process of publishing his work in a projected 25-volume collection edited by staff at the Lonergan Research Institute at Regis College.

"Lonergan is considered by many intellectuals to be the finest philosophic thinker of the 20th century."
—TIME Magazine

Reviews

[Gab Nug · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, I picked up this collection because I wanted a bit of a sample and introduction into the thought of Bernard Lonergan. A 400 page sample is kind of funny, now that I think about it. But it definitely served that purpose. As a bit of a snapshot into the insight :p and method :p of Lonergan, it was also a bit of a teaser. Since it was a collection of lectures/discussions concerning Insight, Lonergan's
nearly 800-page magnum opus, much of it left me wanting more, wanting to go deeper. I'm certainly more excited to delve into his other works now.

[нєνєℓ ¢ανα · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book!