Understanding and Being - 9780802039897

Understanding and BeingThe Halifax Lectures on Insight, Volume 5\nAuthor(s): Bernard Lonergan, Elizabeth Morelli, Mark Morelli\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802039897, 978-0802039897\nSynopsis\nBernard Lonergan [tel] was a noted Canadian philosopher and theologian. He devoted his life to articulating a generalized method of inquiry and its implications, not only for the human and natural sciences, but also for a better world and a higher quality of human life. His own clear vision showed him the need to overcome the terrible fragmentation of knowledge and life in our time. The struggle to achieve an integrated view is the theme that unified the body of his work. \n\n In the history of that struggle, Understanding and Being plays a central role. Published a year after his profound and complex Insight, it is the edited transcription of some thirty hours of Lonergan's lectures on that seminal book. .