Word: insightfulness
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Ultimately, his studies produced what is thus far his masterwork, Insight, published in 1957. In this book and in later papers, he develops an all-embracing theory of knowledge that includes every area of human understanding, not least of them the awareness of God. Though Lonergan grafts from the scholastic tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, he has long since gone beyond Thomism, much as Aquinas transcended Aristotle. His particular distinction is that he shares modern philosophy's concern for each man's uniqueness, and sees man's own self-understanding as the key to understanding the universe...
Lonergan insists that his method is rigorously empirical. His Insight devotes some 750 pages to a closely reasoned demonstration that the same process of understanding that applies to "insights" in mathematics and the physical sciences also applies to theology. To a neophyte, he will patiently explain that it all boils down to three questions: "What am I doing when I am knowing? Why is that knowing? What do I know when I do that...
...gave me insight into the problems of heroin users and confirmed my desire to help all I can. If there were more people in the world like Dr. Densen-Gerber to stamp out this horrible nightmare, and if all of us would work together, perhaps the world would be a better place...
With the peculiarly keen insight of a man who for years was on the outside looking longingly in, Richard Nixon knows how much of a kick someone can get from spending a little time at the White House. Now that he can call the place his own, he has decided to share it; his welcome-mat policy has resulted in a record first-year total of 50,000 invited guests. They have been treated to an imaginative and varied array of entertainment. While the Nixon White House probably will never exchange its basic gray for psychedelic Technicolor, it has already...
...Peter De Vries and John Cheever revealed the darker poetry of the strange islands visited by the 8:02 and the 6:55. Now, about 15 years behind schedule, Loving creaks into the local station. Though it copies many of Cheever's mannerisms, it offers none of his insight or humanity. Yet, from its pretentious title to its artificial fadeout, Loving* poses as a train of revelations...