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Foreign Trade in the Light of Circulation Analysis
Anderson, Bruce
Free trade
Bernard Lonergan
In recent years the debate over free trade has heated up and has taken the form of violence in Seattle, Washington D.C., Quebec, and Genoa. Groups either embrace free trade or condemn it. In fact, it seems impossible to reconcile the arguments put forward by the supporters and the protestors. In this paper I want to investigate the problem by using Bernard Lonergan’s work on economics.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-29
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 1 (2001)
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/99/53
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2010-06-30T02:16:38Z
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System and History in Lonergan's Early Historical and Economic Manuscripts
Brown, Patrick
Lonergan
History in Lonergan's Early Historical and Economic Manuscripts
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-29
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/100/54
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2010-06-30T02:16:38Z
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Underminded Macrodynamic Reading
McShane, Philip
This essay is divided into three uneven sections. The Prologue gently introduces you to a particular problem, the problem of reading non-doctrinally. The second section of the article, the Dialogue, is the main challenge. I understand something, a seemingly rather insignificant thing, and I think it important that you reach towards that understanding, or something equivalent. The Epilogue is an effort to point you towards a broader perspective on the challenge of Part Two, and an effort to open up the meaning of underminded.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-29
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/101/55
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/103
2010-06-30T01:55:54Z
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The Calculus Campaign
Quinn, Terrance
The Calculus Campaign
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-29
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 2 (2002)
1499-1586
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/103/57
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2010-06-30T01:55:54Z
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Basic Economic Variables
Anderson, Bruce
Lonergan
When I lectured on Lonergan’s economic writings at Boston College, Fordham, or Woodstock, people asked the same questions: What’s the big deal about Lonergan’s economics? How does it differ from mainstream economics? What’s Lonergan’s solution to poverty? This paper is a move towards answering those questions.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-29
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 2 (2002)
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/104/58
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2010-06-30T01:55:54Z
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The Basic Price Spread Ratio
McCallion, Tom
Lonergan
This essay endeavours to follow my reading of the argument in Bernard Lonergan’s quite brief discussion of the above topic, to be found in Macroeconomic Dynamics: An Essay in Circulation Analysis, Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan 15 (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1999), as §28 (pages 156-162).Apart from minor changes in notation, etc., and some greater detail in the use of mathematical arguments, there is little that is novel in what is offered. It merely reflects what I found helpful, and the augmentations I needed, in my own attempts to grasp Lonergan’s arguments.The essential point made by Lonergan is that the cyclical variations in the ratio under discussion are treated as signals of what is happening in the economy. It is because these in practice are often misinterpreted (primarily because of misleading underlying theory rather than as a result of malevolent greed) that the ongoing ‘pure cycle’ becomes corrupted into the boom and bust of the ‘trade cycle’.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-29
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/105/59
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2010-06-30T01:55:54Z
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Foundational Ethics, Feminism, and Business Ethics
McShane, Philip
Lonergan
The phrase seeing the past as better has an echo for the Lonergan scholar, to whom this effort is primarily addressed, an echo of the dialectic effort. So, it is a reminder of one of Lonergan’s main cultural achievements: thematising functional specialization. Then one might envisage Business Ethics as it is taught as one of the fruits of that specialization. As so envisaged it is not part of the theological process proper but a result of the specialty called Communications: it is an outreach. Then the question rises, How might that external reach vary, improve, with the ongoing genesis of a more adequate eighth specialty?
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-29
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 2 (2002)
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/106/60
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Implementation: The Ongoing Crisis of Method
McShane, Philip
Lonergan
The editor has raised what for me is the central present problem of Lonergan studies. His invitation to me is that I provide an etching of the problem, a brief basis for discussion. Immediately I think of Fr. Fred Crowe’s old question, What functional speciality are you working in?, and my reply has to be an honest “none.” This seems to me to be an important but simple aspect of the present problem. If one takes Lonergan’s methodological doctrine, as described in Method in Theology, seriously, then one has to attempt some contribution to its implementation.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 3 (2003): Special Issue: Festschrift for Philip McShane
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/115/68
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Philip McShane: The First Forty Years
O'Donovan, Conn
Lonergan
McShane
Conn O'Donovan looks back on McShane's early years and influences.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/116/69
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Statistics as Science: Lonergan, McShane, and Popper
Byrne, Patrick H.
statistics
Lonergan
On this occasion of honouring the achievement of Philip McShane, I would like to recall his earliest and, in my judgment, most important work, Randomness, Statistics and Emergence. In particular, I will recall how that work situated Lonergan’s important breakthrough on statistical method in relation to the major currents of thought on the subject, many of which remain influential still today.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/117/70
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Husserl, Lonergan, and Paradoxes of Measurement
Patrick, Heelan A.
Husserl
Lonergan
My scientific field is theoretical physics. My philosophical orientation is phenomenology, especially hermeneuticalphenomenology, as modified and extended under the influence of Bernard Lonergan's cognitional theory. In fact, I was already deeply under the influence of Bernard Lonergan's workbefore I went to Louvain/Leuven to study phenomenology as a propaedeutic to my preparation in the philosophy of science. The specific topic of this paper is one close to the center of Philip's interest, namely, to articulate the right balance among theory, experiment, and what Husserl called 'die Sache selbst' or the 'givenness' of scientific objects as experienced and understood. The method I shall adopt is that of Husserl's phenomenology of perception, as modified by Lonergan's method of 'self-appropriation.' I will be concerned then with the 'constitution' of experimental data in science - any science.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/118/71
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Reflections on Progress in Mathematics
Quinn, Terrance J.
Dialectics
The vitality of mathematics, however, “is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.” What, however, are the “parts” and “connections”? Is there, perhaps, some general pattern to this ongoing enterprise? In other words, is there some recognisable order to the mathematical project, not as in something to be imposed, but an order that can be verified in actual works and collaborations? A main purpose of this paper is to offer an answer to this question in the affirmative. For there is accumulating evidence for the existence of an eight-fold periodic sequence of functionally related zones of enquiry H1, … , H8 – where for the rest of this paper these zones will be called functional specialties. In particular, each functional specialty would seem to have its own main objective and to involve its own differentiated type of enquiry.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/119/72
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On Intellectual Conversion
Barden, Garrett
naive realism
This essay focusses on two questions: What is intellectual conversion? Why is naive realism attractive?
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/120/73
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Moral Objectivity
Dunne, Tad
moral authority
Among the facts of life that youngsters learn, the one about moral authority can remain unresolved for a lifetime. Once they discover that the list of what’s right and what’s wrong is not cast in stone, they question the moral authority of their parents, religious leaders and government officials. Eventually, they question even their own moral authority. Life teaches them to adjust their assessments of other people, and to reconsider opportunities they think are worth pursuing. They come to understand that anyone’s moral authority is essentially a matter of being objective about what is good. This opens their perspective on what is arguably the most basic issue in moral philosophy: “How do we know what is good?”
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/121/74
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The Plight and the Prospects of Lonergan Studies: A Personal View
Meynell, Hugo
Lonergan
I would like in what follows to discuss the uses for civilization of Lonergan’s philosophical work, and then say something about the broader significance of the method which he propounded for theology.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/122/75
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McShane's Puzzles: Apologia for Those Who Flunk Them
Crowe, Frederick E.
insight
McShane
Philip McShane has had as one of his leisure specialties the provision of tantalising puzzles which are meant to provide samples of insight but sometimes, instead of promoting insight, reduce his readers to angry frustration.I will take as point of departure for my reflections a single puzzle Philip once presented on his own to some learned society – I forget which. Those present were invited to find the meaning of the letters SMTWTFS; when it was clear they were getting nowhere, Philip rescued them from their frustration with the answer: the letters are the initials for the seven days of the week. Facing then the understandable chagrin of his audience at their failure and their irritated protest that they couldn’t be expected to find a sensible answer to such an absurd question, Philip informed them: ‘I gave the problem to a class in Grade School and they solved it.’As one of the frustrated academics who didn’t solve the problem, I wish to reflect on this exchange, not just because, like the person in the Gospel, ‘I am willing to justify myself,’ but more importantly because it suggests an appropriate topic for the volume Michael Shute is editing in Philip’s honour, and gives me an opportunity to ponder once more a question we will never ponder enough or come close to exhausting: the working of the human mind as it strives to achieve and sometimes does achieve an insight. How does insight occur? How can it be encouraged to occur? And why in the present case did it not occur in the circle of academics, when it did to a Grade School class?
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/123/76
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Memories of Bernard Lonergan, S.J.
Novak, Michael
Lonergan
Dr. Novak reminisces about his experience as a student of Lonergan's at Gregorian University.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/124/77
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The Fragmented Self/Subject
Mathews, William
identity formation
McShane
Lonergan
Macintyre
Dr McShane’s discussion paper drew my attention to the theme of fragmentation. There is the fragmentation in our sense of our known worlds brought about by the relentless explosion of change in our collective knowledge and the related life styles which it necessitates. There is also the fragmentation in our sense of ourselves which will be our present concern.Alasdair Macintyre poses the question, how do actions and conversations add up or cohere in the unity of a human life? Translating MacIntyre’s question we can ask: how might questions, insights, formulations, judgements, and decisions add up, cohere, and shape the form and identity of the self in time? It is a question which I believe students of Lonergan need to address.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/125/78
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Implementation in Lonergan's Early Historical Manuscripts
Brown, Patrick
Lonergan
McShane
It has been said of Pound’s great work, the Cantos, that it was not “a poem written from within modern civilization, but a poem about a break with modern civilization and a search for a new basis.” Perhaps the same can be said of Lonergan’s great works, and McShane’s. To use McShane’s phrase, they are great pastmodern works. They attempt to move past the massive impasses of self-neglect so thoroughly and pervasively concretized in the historic flow. They involve a search for a new basis beyond the centuries-long and brutal colonization of the life-world by a warped conceptualism which daily denies that “man by nature is oriented into mystery." .
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/127/80
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Fabricating Facts: How Exegesis Presupposes Eisegesis
Zanardi, William J.
Dialectics
Lonergan
This essay is a rudimentary effort at the functional specialization of dialectic. Following Lonergan’s maxim in Insight to develop positions and to reverse counterpositions, it takes a relatively simple puzzle about eisegesis and criticises some basic confusions about what goes “into” the reading of texts. In the process two counterpositions on the meaning of “text” are criticised and an alternative to both defended.
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2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/128/81
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Implementation in Systematics: The Structure
Doran, Robert M.
Lonergan
Many of the elements of the problem of implementation have been assembled in Philip McShane’s paper and addressed in his life’s work to date. The dimension to which I wish to contribute is the need to lift the chapter on Systematics in Method in Theology out of its tired and minimalist context into the context that Lonergan seems to have had in mind when, at the time of the breakthrough to functional specialization, what eventually was called Systematics was named ‘Explanation’ and its mediated object was said to be Geschichte. At that point Lonergan had in mind, I submit, not simply summing up and integrating the dogmatico-theological context – and even that task does not emerge clearly in Method’s chapter – but also advancing that context, in fact catapulting it into the third stage of meaning and onto the plateau where a normative source of meaning has been articulated that, while remaining normative, pays full recognition to historical mindedness.
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2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/129/82
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Climbing the Cantowers
McCallion, Tom
Ezra Pound
McShane
Cantowers
In his seventieth year, paralleling Ezra Pound’s life work of 117 Cantos, Phil McShane began a long project of writing 117 essays, a new one to be published on the Web on the first day of every month. So far he has kept successfully to this gruelling schedule. He calls these essays ‘Cantowers’, the name involving a multi-levelled pun, partly on the word ‘canto’ itself, but also hinting at the notion that persons ‘can tower’ above the partial and confused perspectives of what McShane would describe as our interim ‘axial’ state, this long dark night in our thinking.
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2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/130/83
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Exploring the Idea of Private Property: A Small Step Along the Road from Common Sense to Theory
Melchin, Kenneth R.
McShane
I had the privilege of studying with Phil McShane in 1979-80, when he was Visiting Fellow at Lonergan University College, Concordia University, Montréal. If I were to choose two points of focus from Phil’s work that have stayed with me through the years following, they would be: stick with the method, and be content with beginnings.
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2010-06-30
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/131/84
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The Twin Paradox: Working Toward Functional Interpretation
Quinn, Terrance J.
relativity
Einstein
Lonergan
Tipler
The Twin Paradox is not a new topic. What is new in this article is that it is an exercise toward interpretation that is functional, in the sense discovered by Lonergan in Method in Theology. The author being interpreted is P. Tipler; and the primary document is taken from his well known textbook. I try to lay out the basic argument in a way that reveals the operative insights, as well as the significant oversights. As it turns out, it would seem that there is neither theoretical basis nor experimental evidence for the alleged “slowing of time” for the high speed traveler.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-07-02
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 4 (2004): Functional Interpretation
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/137/90
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Interpreting Friedman's View of Business
O'Leary, Darlene
Friedman
Lonergan
I have decided to focus this discussion on the famous article by Milton Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits.” This article was originally published in 1970 and has been reproduced in many sources since then. So the article is over 30 years old. However, the perspective that Friedman promotes in this article is one that is still very much a part of discussions about business, business ethics, and ethics and economics. It seems legitimate to me to try to get an insight into some of Friedman’s insights and oversights.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-07-02
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/138/91
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Lonergan's Meaning of Complete in the Fifth Canon of Scientific Method
McShane, Philip
Lonergan
I follow the editor’s suggestion in dividing this essay into sections dealing with a) content, b) context, c) personal context. However, I break the personal reflections into two sections that bracket the presentation of content and context. So, sections 1 and 4 present my personal perspective; section 2 is a shot at a hypothetical expression of the content of Lonergan’s meaning of complete; section 3 handles the context problem. The immediately relevant expressed contexts for the effort here are The Sketch in Insight and page 250 of Method inTheology. The Sketch speaks of content and context of an interpretation; the page pushes discomfortingly for a personal stand.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-07-02
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/139/92
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Lonergan and the Meaning of 'Word'
Benton, John
Lonergan
I am in the process of refining my doctorate thesis objective, having battled through a Master’s degree in the Philosophy of Language.The doctoral issue, of course, has many facets: political, academic, locational, and financial. But the topic relevant to this paper is the issue of “interpretation” raised by Lonergan in the third section of chapter 17 of Insight. The challenge of this paper (and this volume) is to lift that section into the context of hodic conversion.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-07-02
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 4 (2004): Functional Interpretation
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/140/93
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The Outlay Page: An Exercise in Interpretation
McCallion, Tom
Lonergan
The core of the present paper is an attempt to understand what is meant by a brief fragment found within Lonergan’s economic writings. The text of the ‘page’ in question is given on page 216 of For a New Political Economy.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-07-02
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 4 (2004): Functional Interpretation
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/141/94
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/142
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Philip McShane's Axial Period: An Interpretation
Drage, Alessandra
Lonergan
McShane
Let’s suppose that the Axial Period is a time in history that is a transition between the first time of the temporal subject and the second time of the temporal subject; that it is the second stage of meaning: a troubled time between a first stage of meaning, characterized by a spontaneously operative consciousness in ‘early’ culture, and a third stage of meaning constituted by at least a dominant authority of a luminous control of meaning and an explicit metaphysics in a ‘later’ global culture. What this statement means we have now to uncover.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-07-02
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/142
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 4 (2004): Functional Interpretation
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/142/95
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/178
2023-06-03T22:46:29Z
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The Number One Question About Feminism: The Third Wave and the Next Half-Century
Gillis-Drage, Allessandra
third-wave feminism. functional specialization
From its earliest beginnings, the women’s movement has evolved into a complex enterprise combining social, political, economic and academic organizations around the globe. The move into the academic scene (women’s studies, gender studies, etc.), in the past forty or so years, has given rise to debate about the purpose of feminism: what is feminism’s raison d’etre? Should feminism primarily be an advocate for political and social change, as it was in its early days, or should it focus on theoretical questions about women and their place in the world? The debate asks about method: what is the best way forward? How should we proceed? In response, my article explores Bernard Lonergan’s idea of Functional Specialization as a method that offers the potential to unify the global enterprise of feminism with the concrete and practical intent of improving women’s rights around the globe.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-10-20
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 5 (2010): Functional Specialization and Economics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/178/123
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2023-06-03T22:46:29Z
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Teaching Foundations in Peace Studies
Henman, Robert
methodology
insight
curiosity
peace stusies
This article explores the relation of serious theoretical reflection to effective teaching and practice. The article explores the curiosity of the human person as a foundation to Peace Studies. It also attempts to show that the neglect of that curiosity contributes to the growing conflict in human affairs as well as a consistent conflict in Peace research and Peace Studies. The article offers a Socratic pedagogy to teaching Peace Studies that would highlight the foundation of Peace Studies as human curiosity. In this process the fragmentation of the researcher, teacher and student’s own quested natures are challenged to reform
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-10-20
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/179
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 5 (2010): Functional Specialization and Economics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/179/124
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The Nine Lives of Legal Interpretation
Anderson, Bruce
cognitional theory
functional specialization. philosophy of law
Legal scholars talk and write about interpretation in terms of the meaningof words, and for many legal philosophers legal interpretation involvessubsuming particular situations under general rules. However, the more youexamine legal interpretation the more confusing the whole idea ofinterpretation becomes. The aim of this paper is to use Bernard Lonergan'sdiscussion of functional specialization to make sense of this disorderlystate of affairs.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-10-20
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 5 (2010): Functional Specialization and Economics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/180/125
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/181
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Functional Specialization And the Education of Liberty
Zanardi, William J.
functional specialization
liberty
This article locates Lonergan’s call for a new political economy within a larger project, the “education of liberty,” one aim of which is to have large numbers of producers and consumers voluntarily and intelligently adapting their economic decisions to the rhythms of the economy. Part I of the article describes several basic obstacles to such adaptations, including a type of economic realism that assumes “rational agency” in the marketplace is equivalent to the pursuit of perceived self-interest. How are any of these obstacles to be overcome? The promise of functional specialization is to take what is best in the past and to apply it in future efforts to improve the human condition. Thus, Part II of the article summarizes this author’s understanding of the eight functional specialties, and Part III singles out an underdeveloped understanding of rational agency as the focus of an experiment in applying the functional specialties to one obstacle to the education of liberty. The experiment is no more than an invitation to others who may wish to exploit the promise of functional specialization. Leading questions under the eight headings identify parts of possible collaborative projects. [The second article by the same author in this issue of the journal provides an exercise in the fourth specialty of dialectic in response to this invitation.]
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-10-20
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 5 (2010): Functional Specialization and Economics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/181/126
http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/181/127
http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/181/128
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Diagnosing Economic Realisms
Zanardi, William J.
functional specialization
dialectic
economic philosophy
realism
In response to the previous article and its invitation to functional collaboration, this essay identifies two competing versions of economic realism and uses the functional specialty dialectic to diagnose the origins of these different versions. Four Nobel laureates in economics (Friedman and Buchanan, Sen and Yunus) supply two sets of competing views of rational agency and economic realism.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-10-20
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/182
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 5 (2010): Functional Specialization and Economics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/182/120
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/183
2023-06-03T22:46:29Z
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The Original Construction of Lonergan’s Exchange Structure Model
Shute, Michael
economic exchange structure models
marcoeconomic dynamics. Lonergan' economics
An interpretation of Bernard Lonergan's argument for the Exchange Structure Model as it was originally constructed in "For a New Political Economy." The text reveals the steps whereby Lonergan established a fully dynamic foundation for macroeconomics. The author argues that Lonergan's two-circuit approach offers a paradigm shift in the procedures of economic modeling.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2011-03-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/183
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 5 (2010): Functional Specialization and Economics
1499-1586
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/183/121
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/184
2023-06-03T22:46:29Z
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Interpreting Bernard Lonergan’s General Theory of Economic Dynamics: Does it Complete Hayek, Keynes and Schumpeter?
De Neeve, Eileen
Bernard Lonergan
Friedrich Hayek
John Maynard Keynes
and Joseph Schumpeter
economic cycles
The paper reviews links between Bernard Lonergan's theory of innovative economic growth and cycles, and the ideas of Friedrich Hayek, John Maynard Keynes, and Joseph Schumpeter. They were contemporary economists, who remain influential today. For Lonergan, although markets define what is bought and sold in an exchange economy, production decisions are more fundamental. These decisions are choices about the direction of development, the standard of living, and variations in the distribution of wealth in a modern society. The paper shows how Lonergan's pure cycle theory extends mainstream theory to include a broader view of human behaviour and choice.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2010-10-20
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/184
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 5 (2010): Functional Specialization and Economics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/184/122
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2023-06-03T22:41:48Z
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Aesthetics, Art, Liberty, and the Ultimate
Gillis, Alexandra
Bernard Lonergan
art and religion
aesthetics
self-appropriation
Why are art and the aesthetic so vitally important to our liberty, and to the re-creation of liberty in our living? How do they evoke the Ultimate in us? And why is that so important to our modern living? These are the vital questions that moved this author to a three-month personal exploration of aesthetic, artistic and ultimate meaning in its relation to liberty. The article is written pedagogically to lead the reader along the chain of ideas, thoughts and further questions that the author explores in response to her questions.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2011-08-17
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/258
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 6 (2011): Aesthetics
1499-1586
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/258/150
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/260
2023-06-03T22:41:48Z
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The Evident Need for Specialization in Visual Art Studies
Anderson, Bruce
functional specialization
Bernard Lonergan
art education
methodology
This paper is an attempt to identify a functional division of labour in art studies. To that end I have adopted the strategically minimalist approach advocated by Philip McShane in Method in Theology: Revisions and Implementations (2007).
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2011-08-17
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 6 (2011): Aesthetics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/260/164
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/261
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Aesthetic Loneliness and the Heart of Science
McShane, Philip
Bernard Lonergan
art and religion
aesthetics
self-appropriation
science and art
The transcendental lift of Lonergan’s life was an incarnate leaning towards “a grasp of hitherto unnoticed or unrealized possibilities” (Method in Theology, 53), and the blossoming of that transcendental—so neatly identifying “being intelligent” on that page—seems to have been grossly missed by generations of his followers. The what-question in its fullness is a reach for what might be, and Lonergan’s final great leaning pulled together in a gentle global way the fragmentary present seeds of finitude’s lust for unity of purpose: “the end of the divine mission is not attained without the cooperation of human beings” (CWL 11, 485). And what a Cosmopolitan Cooperation he envisaged! And what a shambles his disciples have made of his hope of a communal advance within “an adapted and specialized auxiliary ever ready to offset every interference with intellect’s unrestricted finality” (Insight, 747)!
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2011-08-17
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/261
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 6 (2011): Aesthetics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/261/156
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Response to Glenn Hughes, “Ulterior Significance in the Art of Bob Dylan”
Brown, Patrick
Bob Dylan
Ulterior Significance
religion and art
Bernard Lonergan
This essay—originally a conference response to Glenn Hughes’ essay—explores how themes and notions in Lonergan’s philosophy of art extend in surprising and often unnoticed ways into the larger whole of Lonergan’s thought. By the same token, the broader framework of Lonergan’s philosophy sheds a great deal of interesting light on his philosophy of art. The essay explores this mutual illumination in the context of Hughes’ reflections on “ulterior significance.” For example, it relates Lonergan’s notion of art to his heuristic of human development as an intertwining or interlocking of the organic, psychic, intellectual, and religious levels in human development. It also relates Lonergan’s notion of art, together with his recognition of the centrality of the symbolic in human living, to his treatment of the permanent human needs for liberation from “the ready-made world,” for the sense of the unknown, and for orientation into mystery—even for orientation into ultimate mystery.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2011-08-17
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/262
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 6 (2011): Aesthetics
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/262/157
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Ulterior Significance in the Art of Bob Dylan
Hughes, Glenn
Bob Dylan
Ulterior Significance
religion and art
Bernard Lonergan
This essay examines the songwriting art of Bob Dylan as a vehicle for exploring and clarifying elements in Bernard Lonergan’s analysis of art. The elements focused upon include Lonergan’s treatment of symbols and symbolic meaning as the communicative medium of art, and, at greater length, Lonergan’s account of art’s capacity for what he calls “ulterior significance,” its ability to suggest depths of meaning—including divine or ultimate meaning—that we surmise to lie beyond our comprehension. Examining songs from the full range of Dylan’s fifty-year career, the essay shows that from his early songwriting in the “folk” tradition and his breakthrough achievements of the mid-1960s, Dylan’s best art has been characterized by an unusual concision and power in its use of symbolic imagery, as well as by a recurrent ability to evoke, with artistic originality and effectiveness, mysteries of “ulterior significance.” These analyses are then brought together in a discussion of the religious, often eschatological, character of some of Dylan’s most significant work.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2011-08-17
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/264
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 6 (2011): Aesthetics
1499-1586
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/264/161
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/357
2023-06-03T22:20:32Z
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Sexuality: The Mysticism and Ethics of a Mediated Return To Immediacy
Ponder Soto, Jean
Human Sexuality
Ethics
Spirituality
Bernard Lonergan
In Method in Theology (chapter 3) Lonergan points to a parallel between instances of a mediated return to immediacy: “Finally there is a withdrawal from objectification and a mediated return to immediacy in the mating of lovers and in the prayerful mystic’s cloud of unknowing.” Soto’s essay explores the question: “If it is possible, as some couples report, for the mating of lovers to be a prayerful, mystical experience, what does this mean?”Soto explores the physiological, psychological and spiritual dimensions of the lover’s immediacies. She finds three centers of natural immediacies in the lovers’ return via their lovemaking, and one supernatural immediacy. They include a primitive psychological state, Lonergan’s notion of spontaneous intersubjectivity, and the self-presence of contemplation. All three immediacies have transformative potential for the lovers, and position them for mystical experience. The fourth center of immediacy is the supernatural gift of the indwelling Christ. His presence in the lover’s awareness is mystical immediacy. Christ is mediator and mediated in the couple’s objectification of their mystical immediacy and their ensuing graced living, or, life of prayer.Through scholarly research and supporting, concrete interviews of couples, Soto sketches out some of the ways the lovers cooperate with the precept to “be in love.” The ethic is framed around the developments and conversions in Lonergan’s trajectory that moves from eros to friendship and to a special order of charity.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2012-09-22
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 7 (2012): Ethics and Functional Collaboration
1499-1586
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/357/229
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Lonergan’s Ethics and Feminist Ethics: Exploring the Meaning of Care
Gillis, Alessandra
deliberation
consent
ethics of care
Bernard Lonergan
Over the past thirty-odd years, the feminist contribution of the ethic of care has changed the way in which scholars and ‘lay people’ think about and approach ethical practices in our contemporary society. These changes are important in two significant ways. First, the contribution of feminist work to the body of ethics as a whole is a valuable addition. Second, by drawing attention to the concrete context of moral decision-making, particularly the notion of care, feminist scholars have opened the door for meaningful discussion and understanding of the word care as it is involved in moral decision-making. The latter is where Lonergan’s theory of ethics is most beneficial.The article is written in four sections. It begins with a brief review of a feminist perspective on the ethic of care; a second section explores Lonergan’s identification of levels of consciousness as relevant to feminist notions of care; a third section explores the influence of Aquinas on Lonergan’s theory of ethics and richly applies this fuller context (linking feelings, plans, actions and decisions) to feminist contributions; a final section enlarges significantly on the meaning of the word care by introducing Lonergan’s idea of functional specialization as an ‘ethic of ethics’ that will care about the field of ethics in a radically new way.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2012-09-22
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 7 (2012): Ethics and Functional Collaboration
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/358/230
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An Ethics of Philosophic Work
Henman, Robert
metaethics
functional collaboration
ethics of philosophy
This essay is an existential approach to the issue of foundations in Philosophy. The style of approach is designed to engage the philosophic reader into his or her own foundational dynamics through personal conversation and as a way of overcoming the obfuscation that has dominated the history of philosophy. Relating this to “an ethics” is an effort to manifest the critical dynamic of following one’s own acts of intelligence. The conversational approach is an effort also to overcome the isolation and egoism of philosophic debate towards a more collaborative enterprise that would unify the disparate views on cognition, epistemology, and metaphysics with a view towards a more systematic control of academic work and history.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2012-09-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/359
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 7 (2012): Ethics and Functional Collaboration
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/359/231
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/360
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Is There Anything Special or Unique about Business Ethics?
Anderson, Bruce
business ethics and economics
Bernard Lonergan
My aim is to indicate that Bernard Lonergan's work in economics can be used to argue that there is a special or unique dimension of business ethics. To be more specific, in order to be an ethical business person it is not sufficient to be a "virtuous" person. Ethics in business calls for a clear view on how an economy works and is working, and it calls for intelligent actions in light of such knowledge.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2012-09-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/360/232
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/362
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Invitation to Functional Collaboration: Dynamics of Progress in the Sciences, Technologies, and Arts
Quinn, Terry
progress
decline
sciences
arts
technologies
functional specialization
functional collaboration
emergent.
In all disciplines there is the question of how to promote progress and offset decline. But, what are progress and decline? For this short article, the main discussion centers on biology. A solution called functional specialization begins to emerge as relevant to all of the sciences, technologies and arts. This introductory article ends with some heuristics on various follow-up issues.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2012-09-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/362
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 7 (2012): Ethics and Functional Collaboration
1499-1586
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/362/234
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/363
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Ethics as Functional Collaboration
Duffy, James
functional collaboration
deliberation
“What are we to do next?” is a question that spontaneously emerges in our daily lives, for example, in planning a family vacation, and the question is permeated by a mood of adventure. Ethics as functional collaboration envisions an adventure-anticipating team of individuals who are reaching for better vacations for one and all. Collectively the team is to reach both for a serious understanding of the concrete and particular, be it the local high school or local economy, and for a timely and humane reply to the question “What next?” Their reaching is to make more efficient and beautiful the way they divide up a large number of questions of the type “What is the current situation?” “How did we get here?” “What do we want?” and “What are we to do next?” Whatever small steps we actors in the drama of higher or lower education might take to realize such collaboration are fundamentally good steps, that is, what we are to do next.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2012-09-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/363
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 7 (2012): Ethics and Functional Collaboration
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/363/235
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/723
2023-06-03T22:20:32Z
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‘What-To-Do?’: The Heart of Lonergan’s Ethics
McShane, Philip
Deliberation
Consent
What Questions
Planning
What-To-Do Questions
Bernard Lonergan
Philip McShane explores the implications of Bernard Lonergan’s compacted account of ‘what questions’ and ‘what-to-do questions’ for understanding deliberation. The essay provides a fascinating and instructive glimpse into McShane’s own long-continued struggle and dialogue with Lonergan’s achievement.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2013-06-03
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/723
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 7 (2012): Ethics and Functional Collaboration
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/723/625
oai:journals.library.mun.ca:article/1619
2023-05-04T17:50:49Z
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Empirical Exercise: The Dynamics of Knowing
Allerton, Meghan
dynamics of knowing
what-question
is-question
insight
formulation
judgement of fact
This paper documents my initial effort to approach a mathematical puzzle with a dual focus: my aim is to discover a rule for extracting square roots, but my primary interest is in the procedure, i.e. in the dynamics of my own wonder. The exercise is taken, with some modification, from chapter three of Wealth of Self and Wealth of Nations by Philip McShane. It was an undergraduate effort, and my hope is that it will be helpful to anyone who wishes to make a similar beginning in serious self-attention. It may be of particular interest to high school, college, and university students who are struggling with the problem of memorization replacing genuine understanding in their education.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2015-06-12
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/1619
Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 8 (2015): Functional Collaboration
1499-1586
eng
http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/1619/1229
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Method, Bold Spirits, and "Some Third Way"
Duffy, James
method
functional collaboration
progress and decline
Cosmopolis
On the first two pages of Method in Theology, Lonergan briefly distinguishes those who conceive method more of an art than a science; those “bolder spirits” who select the most successful science, study its procedures, formulate its precepts, and propose analogies; and a third group of those who are conceive method in a third way. This essay is a commentary upon the startling claim and the “price that must be paid” if academic disciplines are to rise above mediocrity and begin to implement the solution to the longer cycle of historical decline.
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Community Climbing: Toward Functional Collaboration
Quinn, Terry
Functional specialization
division of labor
progress
human good.
A main purpose of this article is to draw attention to Lonergan’s discovery, functional specialization. Lonergan’s result was first presented in dense summary fashion, in a 20 page 1969 article "Functional Specialization in Theology." This later became the 20 page Chapter 5 of his 1970 book Method in Theology. While Lonergan’s discovery originally was communicated to theologians, it is a result for all disciplines, “a method, ..., for integrating theology with scholarly and scientific studies ... for promoting good and undoing evil both in the church and in human society generally” (Method in Theology). The present article is for a general audience and includes footnotes to follow-up material as well as a copy of Lonergan’s 1965 discovery page.
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2015-07-09
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Functional Collaboration as the Implementation of Lonergan's Method, Part 2: “How Might We Implement Functional Collaboration?”
Shute, Michael
specialization
progress
functional collaboration
Bernard Lonergan
philosophy of history
The proliferation of specializations of subjects and fields in the contemporary academy has produced a problematic fragmentation of effort which undermines the university’s effectiveness in providing direction for the meeting of practical challenges. How are subjects and fields of study to be effectively integrated? For thirty years Bernard Lonergan worked on this problem in his own field of theology and arrived at a solution he named functional specialization that has broad implications for all subjects and fields. The first part of the essay in this volume examined the roots of Lonergan’s solution. The second part presents the solution itself and discuss how it might be implemented.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2015-06-17
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Reaching for Collaboration in Insight (and Beyond)
Quinn, Terry
collaboration
cosmopolis
progress
decline
biology
insight.
There were two early incomplete attempts to think out practical philosophies in culture. About 2,400 year ago, Plato posed the problem of working out the finest implementable philosophy for culture’s progress. Later, there were Aristotle’s musings: “We must first inquire of what character is a branch. To speak concisely, then, it would seem to be a branch of nothing else than statescraft ”(Aristotle, Magna Moralia). More recently, there were Lonergan’s reachings in Insight - and his beginnings, there, identifying “aspects” of a solution that he named cosmopolis. As pointed to in Insight, the problem is in all disciplines. In this paper, the reader is invited to enter some ways into the science of biology. This concrete context helps further bring out the need for cosmopolis. In Chapter 20 of Insight, Lonergan indicates the need of new kind of collaboration, but “not something altogether new” (Insight, 266). The reaching in Insight brings the question of cosmopolis to a head. This paper ends with a brief mention of Lonergan’s later 1965 breakthrough to a solution which is to be an empirically grounded eightfold collaboration.
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2015-07-02
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Review of Sean McNelis, “Making Progress in Housing”
Shute, Michael
methods in housing research
functional collaboration. Lonergan
A review of Sean McNelis's recent book Making Progress in History
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2015-06-12
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Functional Collaboration As The Implementation Of Lonergan’s Method, Part 1: For What Problem is Functional Collaboration the Solution?
Shute, Michael
specialization
progress
functional collaboration
Bernard Lonergan
philosophy of history
The proliferation of specializations of subjects and fields in the contemporary academy has produced a problematic fragmentation of effort which undermines the university’s effectiveness in providing direction for the meeting of practical challenges. How are subjects and fields of study to be effectively integrated? For thirty years Bernard Lonergan worked on this problem in his own field of theology and arrived at a solution he named functional specialization that has broad implications for all subjects and fields. This essay examines the roots of Lonergan’s solution. The second part of the essay also in this volume presents the solution itself and how it might be implemented.
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2015-07-02
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Preface: Functional Research
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
The first steps towards functional research
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2016-11-15
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Functional Research: Introduction
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
An introduction to functional research.
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2016-11-15
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Functional Research into Lonergan’s Collected Works
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
A discussion of how functional research might impact futire research on Lonergan's Collected Works
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2016-11-15
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What Is Functional Research?: The Struggle So Far
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
A review of efforts in functional research with an eye to towards improving the efficeny of the collaborative effort.
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2016-11-15
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A Contexting of First Attempts at Functional Research
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
An extended reflection on the first efforts of the SGEME seminar in functional reserach.
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2016-11-15
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Working Towards a Standard Model
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
standard model
A discusion of a central goal in the development of functional collaboration, the shift toward the persuit of a standard model for the science and for collaboration grounded in the core methodlogy of generalized empirical method.
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2016-11-15
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The End of Lonerganism: Fuse or Refuse
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
A challenge to Lonergan studies to shift its attention to functional collaboration
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2016-11-15
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Galactic Functional Research
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
standard model
The presentation of an alternative future vision for both Lonergan studies and for all academic and scientific collaboration.
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2016-11-15
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“What is Functional Research?”
McShane, Philip
functional collaboration
functional research
Bernard Lonergan
A final reflection on funtional reserach, the theme and meaning of the volume
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2016-11-15
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Neuroscience and Generalized Empirical Method Go Three Rounds
Anderson, Bruce
mind and consciousness
foundations of neuroscience
generalized empirical method
Bernard Lonergan
A review of Robert Henman's Book Neuroscience and Generalized Empirical Method.
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2016-11-15
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An Apparent Anomaly in Lonergan Scholarship
Shute, Michael
Henman, Robert
functional specialist research
functional specialization
implementation of functional specialization
A search for the occurrences of the word 'implementation' and its cognates in Lonergan's texts uncovers an apparent anomaly in the indexing. The article presents the research and contextualizes it results. Some possible implications for functional interpretation of the meaning of implementation in metaphysics and the function specialization are considered.
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2018-09-16
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/1957/1526
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Method in Theology: From [1 + 1/n]nx to {M (W3)θΦT}4
McShane, Philip
functional specialization
Lonergan studies
theological foundations
McShane’s Essay, “Method in Theology: From [1 + 1/n]nx to {M (W3)θΦT}4”, takes off from a puzzling piece of a 1954 letter of Lonergan to Fred Crowe, which Crowe and McShane both struggled with, and pushes forward to a more coherent perspective seeded by Lonergan in the decades that span that letter in both time-directions. The theology identified as a vague genetics in 1954 is précised as a well-defined cyclic collaborative structure to emerge in later millennia as “a resolute and effective intervention in this historical process” (Phenomenology and Logic, 306).
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2018-09-16
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/1960/1530
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Starting Economics: Again
Brown, Patrick
Lonergan
Economics
Basic Variables
This first essay of the volume sets the scene for the cumulative work of the five contributors. The issue is the emergence of a genuine science of economics that is based on identifying the real, and simple, variables of production and consumption. That identification is the task of the group of essays to follow. Here attention is drawn to the fact that we do not seek models to guide us but concrete promising insights into how we may improve our standard of living by seeking
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The Meaning of Credit
McShane, Philip
belief and credit
finance
economic democracy
The reach here is for relevant guidelines to the search for a meaning to the word credit and to the activity of credit-giving. It draws on the work of Joseph Schumpeter on norms of constructive credit in relation to economic progress and development. More fundamentally, it draws attention to the need for a new level of serious science regarding our own performances of belief and credit-giving. What is at stake is the slow emergence of a novel type of economic democracy quite foreign to present centralism, an emergence depending on a novel style of reading on the part of the reader.
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2018-09-16
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Real Economic Variables
Shute, Michael
Lonergan's Economics
Basic Variables
This essay seeks to give a homely start to the search for the relevant variables in economic science. It carries forward, through simple illustrations, the pointers of the first two essays. The invitation to you is to identify two cycles of activity and exchange that are necessary for the progress of the simplest barter economy. The invitation leads gently to the plausibility of the need for the invention of money as an enrichment of the promise of economic progress, so making way for the analysis of the activity of promising that is the topic of the essay to follow.
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2018-09-16
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Keeping Promises
Brown, Patrick
belief and credit
finance
economic democracy
This fourth essay carries forward the search for a normative empirical economics by focusing on the challenge of finding out just what could be meant by speaking of money as promise. While the essay does not blossom out into a wholesome precision and a serious development of the meaning of promising, it should lead you to a suspicion that the self-attention required to meet that challenge is a shocking lift of culture and education. The problem of the volume is to make that leading effective by you taking over the leading.
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2018-09-16
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Sane Economic Theory and the Failure of Religion
O'Leary, Darlene
profit as social dividend
Lonergan's economics
social justice
A more elaborate elementary economy of fishing is considered here than that provided by Shute. The broader complexity of economic progress is attended to briefly, in the context of Lonergan‟s view of profit as a social dividend. The function of that dividend is a global well-being that pivots, for its effectiveness, on the luminousness regarding promises discussed in the previous essay. This essay draws attention to a force in that effectiveness that is to be brought forth from all patterns of religious commitment. The issue is to make operative the human drive to make sense.
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2018-09-16
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Raising Expectations: Making Sense, Not Money
Zanardi, William J.
Lonergan
Economics
Basic Variables
Leisure
Making sense is the topic of this essay, and it is tackled in a series of sublating contexts. It begins with reflections on the context of a simple family business that makes sense and that calls for its members to continue to create sense. Questions emerge in that making of sense that lift the group beyond its own comfortable context, so that the issue of making sense places this group and all global sub-groups in the fuller problematic of making over-all sense of our living in history. Issues of leisure and expectations are raised in a manner that point to the need for global collaboration.
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2018-09-16
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Edging Towards A Later Global Stage
McShane, Philip
global business
economic collaboration
Lonegan's economics
The objective of this essay is to illustrate patterns of present distraction from the meaningful objectives ofThe objective of this essay is to illustrate patterns of present distraction from the meaningful objectives of global business: the provision of local standards of living through collaborative care both of innovative structures of local improvements and for the global distribution of generic consumer benefits. Such distractions are as obvious as media attention, in pseudo-business discussions, to the neurotic and greedy patterns of gambling symbolized by the name Wall St. But overlayed on this silly devotion to casino-dynamics are varieties of supposedly learned discourse that are, in the main, locked into those same patterns. They need to be exposed. : the provision of local standards of living through collaborative care both of innovative structures of local improvements and for the global distribution of generic consumer benefits. Such distractions are as obvious as media attention, in pseudo-business discussions, to the neurotic and greedy patterns of gambling symbolized by the name Wall St. But overlayed on this silly devotion to casino-dynamics are varieties of supposedly learned discourse that are, in the main, locked into those same patterns. They need to be exposed.
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2018-09-16
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The Global Economy and My Little Corner
McShane, Philip
Lonergan
Economics
Basic Variables
This final essay returns to the basic issue raised in the first essay and places it in the fuller context of the dynamics of the untrammelled spirit of inquiry. That spirit of inquiry, the heart of serious science, is just not present either in contemporary establishment economics or in the range of views opposed to it. So, neither group takes seriously the quest for real basic variables. Such seriousness has to emerge from a creative minority, towards which this volume reaches. The creativity demanded is the coming to grips with the dynamics of any business and the drawing of attention to it.
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2018-09-16
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Preparing to Read Economic History Functionally
Shute, Michael
standard economic model
functional specialization
Lonergan's economics.
The article explores Lonergan’s use of the word ‘transition’ in For a New Political Economy as a basis for examining how we might read history functionally. The essay stresses the importance of developing standard models in reading the history of economics and suggests that Lonergan’s work in economics provides just such a basis for developing standard models for both economics and general method.
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2018-09-17
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 10 (2018): Research in Lonergan Studies
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/1970/1529
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Bernard Lonergan’s Puzzling Comment About the Vis Cogitativa
Zanardi, William
vis cogitativa
superego
binding problem
This essay is a demonstration of the first functional specialty, Research. As I understand it, the principle aim of the specialty is to assemble materials relevant to understanding some puzzling issue. The short text from Lonergan’s correspondence that I found puzzling associated the vis cogitativa with the Freudian superego. My task, therefore, is rather straightforward, namely, to gather in one place all the available relevant comments that Lonergan made on the vis cogitativa and the Freudian superego. However, I do include some supplementary materials that provide both background to Lonergan’s comments and an updating of how contemporary neurosciences speak about the traditional function of the vis cogitativa.
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2026/1594
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Early Forms of Apprehension and Moral Evaluation
Zanardi, William
Lonergan
moral development
genealogy of morals
vis cogitativa
binding problem
The following essay is an exercise in doing the second functional specialty, Interpretation, in relation to research materials from my essay, “Lonergan’s Puzzling Comment about the Vis Cogitativa.”1 Section I briefly reviews the puzzle and suggests how Lonergan’s theoretical meaning of ‘development’ offers clues for resolving it. In Section II the significance of his comment expands in relation to a much larger puzzle as old as Aristotle’s sensus communis and as current as contemporary neuroscientific reports on the binding problem. Given this much larger puzzle, Section III pauses to ask methodological questions about how to proceed. There the question is what heuristic framework might be adequate in interpreting texts from several disciplines ranging from the neuroscience of attention to psychology and intentionality theory. I identify four features of such a framework and then apply them in the last two sections of this essay.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2018-09-17
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Dialectic and the Emergence of Explicit Metaphysics
Oyler, David
I am going to sketch the personal role of dialectic in the emergence of explicit metaphysics. Of necessity, it is a sketch since a full account would require more than an essay. If we consider the full sweep of Lonergan’s views on dialectic and your own personal appropriation of dialectic and metaphysics, it is also a sketch because I account for, but do not provide an account of, either one of those. You are responsible for the latter. Other philosophers and theologians are responsible for the former. I will provide a very brief indication of the former which will help me situate the questions I am pursuing here.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-02-24
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Exploring Three Dialectical-Foundational Missing Links in Academia That Lonergan Retrieves
Raymaker, John
Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso—respectively pioneers of modern music and painting—were staunch friends. Stravinsky's “Rite of Spring” (1913) was intended to shock. Its “savage violence confronted head-on the aesthetics of impressionism—then at the apogee of Parisian musical fashion—just as the razor-sharp editing between phrases subverted the smooth, seamless flow of the Germanic symphonic tradition with pitiless efficacy. It has been said that the ‘Rite of Spring’ is ‘cubist music’—where musical materials slice into one another, interact and superimpose with the most brutal edges, thus challenging the musical approach and form that had dominated European ears for centuries.”In some ways, Lonergan’s lifework parallels Stravinsky and Picasso's achievements in their fields. As is the case with the two giants of modern music and art, Lonergan’s method incorporates previous achievements while opening vistas able to guide the future. His method is able to integrate revolutionary efforts within various traditions while opening up paths to interfaith, interdisciplinary perspectives. His work offers us several dialectical-foundational missing links2 that can help connect the intellectual and spiritual facets of our lives both personally and multicultural endeavors. But opposed to this optimistic prognosis for Lonergan’s method, the effectiveness of his achievement is undermined if not vitiated by what Phil McShane calls the “darkness” affecting humans—a darkness that has not spared the efforts of Lonergan students. “That darkness gives us the possibility, even some slim probabilities, of a fresh start on the stumbling meaning of Method in Theology from Section 5 of chapter ten to the end of the book. That stumbling meaning has to become a precise lean-forward meaning”3 hinted at in Method in Theology’s chapter on history.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-02-24
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2182/1728
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What Are Your Expectations in Doing Comparative Interpretation?
Zanardi, William J.
This essay is an extended invitation to reflect on what you expect comparative interpretation to accomplish.1 Its purpose is to challenge your understanding and practice in comparing different viewpoints on some common issue. Do you think your development in understanding and practice can accelerate indefinitely? Do you, instead, expect it to level off, even come to a halt, because you have concluded that competing interpretations often reflect fundamental, irreconcilable differences between schools of thought or between different moral-religious traditions?Part I describes some expectations about comparative interpretation and asks you to make them explicit “objects” of your attention. Part II offers some guidance in identifying your own expectations. It also tackles the difficult question of the criterion: What is the basis for the judgments and decisions that produce developmental rankings of interpretations? Part III asks where you stand in relation to eight expectations about basic issues in comparative interpretation. The invitation to formulate your stances is an invitation to work out your own expectations about expectations, your own viewpoint on viewpoints.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-02-24
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A Positioning
Braio, Frank
Rather than getting into the spread of components in my own positioning, I want to pick up on a point made by Phil McShane in a communication sent Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM to: ‘lonergan_l @skipperweb.org’—re : positioning in philosophy and economics.But before I pick up on it, I wish to relate McShane’s point both to this series of seminars and also to my own, ongoing work. Again, I would like to establish these relationships in such a way that they bring out: first, the legitimacy of the topic of dialectic being set forth in this fourth of our seminars; and secondly, how McShane’s point contributes to our common drive to understand the condensed invitation on page 250[235] of Method in Theology to participate aptly in the deeply novel method of dialectic collaboration.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-02-24
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2184/1730
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“MacIntyre and Lonergan” Revisited
Duffy, James
In the fall of 1999, I drafted two essays for the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA), which took place in St. Paul, Minnesota during the first week of November 1999. The essay that I presented, “Insights into and in the History of Philosophy,” was later published in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. The second essay, “MacIntyre and Lonergan on the History of Philosophy,” was not presented at the ACPA. In the spring of 2000 I reworked this essay and submitted it to The Thomist for publication with the title “MacIntyre and Lonergan: Metaphysical Genealogies?”Nineteen years later I am revisiting the essay I submitted to The Thomist. Why? Some things have happened in the last 20 years that have significantly changed my perspective regarding the effectiveness of comparing these two thinkers. Indeed, my perspective on the effectiveness of comparing any two or more thinkers has changed significantly, and I feel moved to articulate reasons for the change, as it calls into question a basic expectation and procedure of academic practice. What was I doing in the original essay? Why did it make sense to compare the two thinkers then, but it does not now? What difference does my change in perspective make? To whom might it make a difference?
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-02-24
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2185/1731
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Reinterpreting the Motor Car Analogy in Bernard Lonergan’s "For a New Political Economy"
Williams, Hugh
Economics as a discipline and as a social science and practice is very hard work to practice well. Many economists are in fact very conscientious in their practice. My own approach to the critique and study of economics has been based, at least in part, upon an adaptation of the Socratic method from the history of philosophy which, in the first instance, can be read as negative, critical, and skeptical. This aspect of philosophy quickly appealed to my desire for independent thinking as a young student, especially in its capacity to expose the ignorance of those who presented themselves as authoritative experts, … to expose what the expert does not know and even further where there may be the pretense of knowledge when in fact there is none. This of course doesn’t mean, in the Socratic tradition, that the critical philosopher or incisive skeptic has more knowledge, but rather he/she may only be discovering the ‘holes’ in the expert’s knowledge without necessarily knowing what might fill that hole. This, as in the story of Socrates, can lead fatefully to serious trouble with the powers that be in any institution or society. This certainly can be the case when from a philosophical perspective one proceeds to criticize the limitations of a venerable and admittedly powerful discipline such as economics.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-02-24
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Review of Philip McShane, The Future: Core Precepts in Supramolecular Method and Nanochemistry
Zanardi, William
An audience for this book will be graduate students, faculty and independent scholars who have ever complained that their academic disciplines “can’t go on like this.” But diagnosing existing deficits and inventing remedies are not simple matters, and the author is upfront: “The real ascent and its fantasy culture belong to a later period of history.” Still, the ascent to a base camp and an envisioning of further climbing are possible, and this book offers some climbing tips
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-02-24
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2187/1733
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Effective Dialectical Analysis
Duffy, James
Gillis, Alexandra
Henman, Robert
Quinn, Terrance
Zanardi, William
The common description of science as ‘an organized body of knowledge’ possesses more than merely metaphorical significance. Like any self-organizing body—be it a tadpole, a giraffe fetus, an animal species, or humanity in its space-time solidarity—science develops. It develops through cumulative discoveries, especially significant discoveries, which often enough involve “a series of emergent leaps from the logic of one position to the logic of the next.” The displacement of one logic by another raises the question of method. Is there a logic of leaping?
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-05-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2198/1743
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Dialectic Exercise on ‘the General Bias’
Brown, Patrick
King, Catherine
St. Amour, Paul
The assembled text is Insight, Chapter 7, section 8, on the “general bias” of common sense. First, I attempt to identify key counterpositions that previously guided my thinking about general bias. Second, I identify a position that can be developed. Third, I attempt to indicate the view that would result from reversing those counterpositions and promoting that position.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-05-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2199/1744
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Assembling the Meaning of Probability
Duffy, James
Moloney, Cecilia
Quinn, Terrance
My positioning focuses on the meaning of a single word, probability. As in the prior exercise,1 my tasks are to (i) make explicit, to talk about, that which I am capable of talking about; (ii) to identify that which I am not capable of talking about; and (iii) to describe the view that results from developing what I take to be positional and reversing what I take to be counter-positional.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-05-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2200/1745
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Assembling the Science of Interpretation
McShane, Philip
Zanardi, William
“Interpretation is to be scientific.” Those five words of Lonergan weave beautifully into my proposed sublation of Chapter 17 of Insight in the context of an effective engineering of progress that would gently blossom into the strange leap to eschatological neuromolecular reality.2 But here we are not pushing for a grasp of such a millennial-long global venture. We are, rather, trying to get the community around Bernard Lonergan to begin to take his project and his optimism seriously. Our effort is in continuity with two previous Assembly ventures but is quite independent of them: these introductory remarks settle that independence by indicating the basic strategy.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-05-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2201/1746
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Assembling Lonergan’s Heart
Allerton, Meghan
Duffy, James
McShane, Philip
This series of Assembly essays seeks to make a beginning on the structured dialectic task specified so compactly by Lonergan in section 5 of Chapter 10 of Method in Theology. I discussed how the series might be developed at the end of the Preface.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-05-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2202/1747
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Review of Philip McShane, Interpretation from A to Z
Zanardi, William
A subtitle for this book could have read “A Revolution Betrayed.” The author begins by criticizing conventional ways of reading and interpreting the works of Bernard Lonergan, ways that remain at the level of common-sense meanings. However, Lonergan’s purpose in Chapter 17, Section 3 of Insight and in Chapter 7 of Method in Theology was to start a revolution in ways of reading and interpreting. Why have his followers failed to make the radical changes he proposed? No doubt academic inertia has played a role. The changes are difficult to make, remote from inherited pre-scientific practices, and perhaps too futuristic for those settled into familiar scholarly routines.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-05-22
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2203/1748
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Moving Towards JMDA Volume 14
McShane, Philip
I note at this get-go that I am writing to those who are participating in the scramble for new controls of meaning that is to be this volume. Perhaps it, and its pressures towards the effective engineering, will reach others. Indeed, slowly it, and its companion volumes, may seed the new culture of the positive Anthropocene age. But the modest aim here is to seed a shift of competence in this volume of the Duffy Exercise.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-12-10
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2214/1754
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The Dynamic State of Being in Love
Gillis, Alexandra
Lovett, Brendan
McShane, Philip
Whalon, Pierre
To speak of the dynamic state of being in love with God pertains to the stage of meaning when the world of interiority has been made the explicit ground of the worlds of theory and of common sense.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020-12-10
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2215/1755
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The Heuristic Notions of Space and Time
Duffy, James
Henman, Robert
Quinn, Terrance
For a variety of reasons attention is now directed to the notions of space and time. Not only are these notions puzzling and so interesting, but they throw considerable light on the precise nature of abstraction, they provide a concrete and familiar context for the foregoing analyses of empirical science, and they form a natural bridge over which we may advance from our examination of science to an examination of common sense.
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2020-12-10
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2216/1756
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The Notion of a Thing
Allerton, Meghan
Quinn, Terrance
Now the notion of a thing is grounded in an insight that grasps, not relations between data, but a unity, identity, whole in data; and this unity is grasped, not by considering data from any abstractive viewpoint, but by taking them in their concrete individuality and in the totality of their aspects. For if the reader will turn his mind to any object he names a thing, he will find that object to be a unity to which belongs every aspect of every datum within the unity. Thus, the dog Fido is a unity, and to Fido is ascribed a totality of data whether of color or shape, sound or odor, feeling or movement. Moreover, from this grasp of unity in a concrete totality of data there follow the various characteristics of things.
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2020-12-10
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2217/1757
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The Ontological Structure of the Hermeneutic Circle
Shoppa, Clayton
Zanardi, William
In his recent review of a book by Fred Lawrence, Jeremy Wilkins remarked that the author left undeveloped his claim that Lonergan’s functional specialties “thematize the ontological structure of the hermeneutic circle.” Why, he asked, did the author offer no further commentary on his claim? This essay is our experiment in filling in some of what was left unstated. It is also another exercise in doing the three objectifications Lonergan included as final steps in the fourth functional specialty of dialectic.
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2020-12-10
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2218/1758
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The More General and Difficult Fields of Speculation
Anderson, Bruce
McShane, Philip
For society to progress towards that or any other goal it must fulfill one condition. It cannot be a titanothore, a beast with a three-ton body and a ten-ounce brain. It must not direct its main effort to the ordinary final product of standard of living but to the overhead final product of cultural implements. It must not glory in its widening, in adding industry to industry, and feeding the soul of man with an abundant demand for labor. It must glory in its deepening, in the pure deepening that adds to aggregate leisure, to liberate many entirely and all increasingly to the field of cultural activities. It must not boast of science on the ground that science fills its belly. It must not glue its nose to the single track of this or that department. It must lift its eyes more and ever more to the more general and more difficult fields of speculation, for it is from them that it has to derive the delicate compound of unity and freedom in which alone progress can be born, struggle, and win through.
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2020-12-10
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2219/1759
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Remembering Philip McShane
Anderson, Bruce
Bruce Anderson’s research and writing has been concerned with legal decision-making, economic theory, and contemporary sculpture. His work draws on the writings of Philip McShane and Bernard Lonergan. It includes ‘Discovery’ in Legal Decision Making and Beyond Establishment Economics (with P. McShane). He is Professor of Law at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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2022-06-23
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Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis; Vol. 15 (2022): In Memoriam: Philip McShane (1932-2020)
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2382/1951
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"Dear Folks"
Benton, John
John Benton (M.A. B.Ed. B.A.) is an active scholar and educator. He has published academic articles and books in the philosophy of language, method, and co-authored a book on economics. Benton engages in international outreach to graduate university students.
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2022-03-16
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http://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/jmda/article/view/2383/1904
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Philip McShane: Reminiscences
Coelho, Ivo
Ivo Coelho, SDB earned a PhD in philosophy at the Gregorian University, Rome, for his work on “The Development of the Notion of the Universal Viewpoint in Bernard Lonergan: From Insight to Method in Theology” (1994). Among his publications are Hermeneutics and Method: The ‘Universal Viewpoint’ in Bernard Lonergan (2001), Brahman and Person: Essays by Richard De Smet (2010) (ed.), Violence and its Victims: A Challenge to Philosophizing in the Indian Context (Association of Christian Philosophers India vol. 11, 2010) (ed.), Understanding Śaṅkara: Essays by Richard De Smet (2013) (ed.), and Keeping the Faith: Festschrift for Joaquim D’Souza, SDB (2016) (ed.).
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2022-03-16
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