Word: dialecticism
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Jesuit Joseph Flanagan, a longtime Lonergan scholar, was much less surprised. For Flanagan, Lonergan's meth od "not only includes but demands interdisciplinary dialectic. We must learn from one another." To do otherwise, says Flanagan, simply contributes to "the pool of misunderstanding" that in Lonergan's thought lies...
ARTISTIC yearning fell before the urge "to know and understand" the forces of societal change. A synthesis began to emerge from what he called his internal dialectic. There were always two urges in him during these radical years: learning and fighting politically. Becoming a sociologist brought the discrete arts of...
The insistent and honest cultivation of a subversive consciousness is perhaps the only design for escape left us. As John Lewis wrote on his tribute to Aiken, "Perception, erroneous though it may be, is still an act which reaches objects beyond itself." The reaching beyond is a subtle dialectic between...
I think that dialectic would have served well as a way to push on from juxtaposition. We theologians and laymen need more than focus. We need to jump on a new level of thought. Discontinuity demands dialectic, which is properly the synthesis of converging ideas on a higher plane, Sypthesis...
Visually the documentary parts have a seeming aimlessness that borders on irresponsibility. It includes one marvelous establishing shot of the Brazilian people: a tightly packed ferry nudges into dock, the retaining rope falls, and Brazilian men and women come running towards the camera in slow motion. Much of the rest...