Method, Bold Spirits, and "Some Third Way"

Authors

  • James Duffy Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Morelia

Keywords:

method, functional collaboration, progress and decline, Cosmopolis

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

James Duffy, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Morelia

Professor James Duffy currently resides in Morelia, Michoacán, México, where he teaches undergraduates at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Morelia. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University.

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Published

2015-06-12