The Importance of Insight: Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin

by John J Liptay (Editor), David S. Liptay (Editor)

Overview

Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronto, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading Lonergan scholars. These essays investigate the importance of Lonergan's articulation of insight, and how it can be applied within the fields of cognitional theory, theology, ethics, and politics. The contributors address several issues emerging from the post-Enlightenment crisis of meaning and value, as well as more specific contemporary concerns, such as the nature of Christian revelation, the articulation of Church doctrine, and the ethical training health care professionals should receive.

By indicating what there is to be gained by understanding and applying insight in a number of different contexts, this collection highlights the relevance of Lonergan's thought in the contemporary intellectual and cultural milieu, and, at the same time, makes a significant contribution to the development of Lonergan's thought itself. In this way, The Importance of Insight offers a window into cutting-edge Lonergan scholarship and some of its central concerns and preoccupations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487587253
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/2007
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

John J. Liptay is an assistant professor in the Philosophy Program at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. David S. Liptay is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

John J. Liptay Jr and David S. Liptay

PART ONE: Understanding Insight

Lonergan’s Transpositions of Augustine and Aquinas: Exploratory Suggestions
Matthew Lamb

Obstacles to the Implementation of Lonergan’s Solution to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning
Mark D. Morelli

Empirical Consciousness inInsight: Is Our Conception Too Narrow?
Robert M. Doran, SJ

The Excessive Meaning of the Imaginal and Indirect Communication in Methodical Philosophy
S.J. McGrath

PART TWO: Insight in Theology

Is God Free to Create or Not Create?
Frederick E. Crowe, SJ

Revelation and/as Insight
Charles Hefling

Two Accounts of Reception
Margaret O’Gara

PART THREE: Insight in Ethics and Politics

The Ethics of Authenticity and the Human Good, in Honour of Michael Vertin, an Authentic Colleague
Fred Lawrence

Risk, Gratitude, and Love: Grounding Authentic Moral Deliberation
Cynthia S.W. Crysdale

Moral Education for Health Care Professionals
William F. Sullivan and John Heng

Democracy, Sublation, and the Scale of Values
Kenneth R. Melchin

PART FOUR: Further Thoughts on Insight

The Importance of RescuingInsight
Philip McShane

Michael Vertin Bibliography

Contributors