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...clearly owes a debt to the phenomenologists, particularly to German Philosopher Edmund Husserl. For the phenomenologist, the material evidence of a perceived object is screened by the dynamic (and very personal) phenomenon of the act of knowing. Husserl developed this into the idea of "horizon" - the vastness or narrowness of the world a man perceives. For Husserl, a man's horizon is limited by his per spective: his environment, his loves and fears, his interests and prejudices...
Adapting this idea of horizon, Lonergan makes it part of his theory of knowledge. A man can alter his horizon by recognizing it as a limitation on his ability to know - indeed, as a limitation on the very questions that he must ask in order to know. He can open himself to information from out side his horizon, use that information to formulate new questions, and continue to grow. By thus transcending his limitations, a man undergoes "conversion," which may be moral, intellectual, social or religious. In Lonergan's approach to theology, which he will spell out in detail...
...Montaigne took a trip through the ravines along the Sioule River near Clermont-Ferand. He stopped his carriage at one point and looked down hundreds of feet at the river and hundreds of feet to the rocks that dominated the horizon. As a Renaissance man, he was horrified. Everything should be built to the measure of man, and les Gorges de la Sioule certainly were not. He would have died if he had seen New York...
...long fascinated the world with his politics, criticism, and poetry that helped shape the course of twentieth-century literature. In the 1930's, he led a new movement in English poetry, along with W.H. Auden. Louis MacNeice, and C. Day Lewis. He later founded and edited the magazines Horizon and Encountes, and again returned to literary attention in 1968 with the publication of The Year of the Young Rebels, a book about student activism. Mr. Spender is also well-known for his brief flirtation with communism while in Spain where he was writing poetry and translating the work of loyalist...
...ramp Sam paused and they all five gazed at the freeway below them. Wondering what possible cause for all the fishtailed bleepbleep boats to be zooming so fast toward the horizon. Five watching the flow and marveling that those below couldn't see what they could: if the river is us, we can go nowhere on it, we can only...