An Introduction to Bernard Lonergan: Exploring Lonergan's approach to the great philosophical questions

Bernard Lonergan was a mid 20th century Canadian philosopher and theologian. This book aims to help form a basis for inquiry into Lonergans achievement in his new approach to the great philosophical questions: what do I do when I know something? (cognitional theory) why is doing that knowing? (epistemology) and what do I know when I do that? (metaphysics).Lonergan deals with these questions somewhat more deeply in his major works Insight (1957 1992) and Method in Theology (1972 2017). Here he invites one to discover in oneself the dynamic structure of ones own cognitional and moral being and in doing this one finds an operative procedure that is not open to radical revision. In fact Lonergan has unearthed a dynamic conscious framework for creativity a method that grounds all investigation that is intelligent and critical. It is a resource that is transcendental in that it is the concrete and dynamic unfolding of human attentiveness intelligence reasonableness and responsibility and this unfolding occurs whenever one uses ones mind in an appropriate fashion.This method for investigators too is new in its finding eight tasks that are distinct and separable stages in the single process from data to results and can be adapted to any subject in which investigations are responding to past history and are to influence future history.