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The importance of insight : essays in honour of Michael Vertin / edited by John J. Liptay and David S. Liptay

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Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) : illustrations, portrait
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Liptay, David S., Liptay, John J., and Vertin, Michael, 1939-
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Contents
Introduction -- PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING INSIGHT. Lonergan's transpositions of Augustine and Aquinas: exploratory suggestions -- Obstacles to the implementation of Lonergan's solution to the contemporary crisis of meaning -- Empirical consciousness in Insight: is our conception too narrow? -- The excessive meaning of the imaginal and indirect communication in methodical philosophy -- PART TWO: INSIGHT IN THEOLOGY. Is god free to create or not create? -- Revelation and/as insight -- Two accounts of reception -- PART THREE: INSIGHT IN ETHICS AND POLITICS. The ethics of authenticity and the human good, in honour of Michael Vertin, an authentic colleague -- Risk, gratitude, and love: grounding authentic moral deliberation -- Moral education for health care professionals -- Democracy, sublation, and the scale of values -- PART FOUR: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON INSIGHT. The importance of rescuing Insight -- Michael Vertin bibliography -- Contributors.
Summary
Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronot, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading Lonergan scholars.
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9781442684942 (electronic bk.)
1442684941 (electronic bk.)
9781487586751 (e-book)
1487586752
9780802092175 (bound)
0802092179 (bound ; alk. paper)
9781487587253 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229).
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