Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectualism, I should like to add a qualifying remark to your most stimulating Essay [May 21]. A great deal of the "respect" you are talking about is paid not to the intellectuals but to the intellectual charlatans of a TV quiz-show type. The true intellectual, the quiet, original thinker who has the acumen and the courage of original thought, still receives only a trifle of the recognition paid to the pseudo intellectuals who often dominate the scene. If those criteria are applied, it becomes doubtful whether present-day America can boast a population ratio of intellectuals 7.5 times...
...only say with all possible respect that if the late President really was as he is here presented-so dedicated a public servant, so faithful a husband and devoted a father, so witty, learned, and profound an orator, writer, and thinker, so genial a friend, prayerful a Christian, and enlightened a statesman-he is better off in Heaven, where, according to an electoral oration in Ohio by Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, we may now confidently assume...
...Nature of Knowing. Lonergan is not an easy thinker to appreciate. His dense, elliptical prose, studded with references to Thomas Aquinas and modern physics, makes its points in a methodical and mind-wearying manner. One typical passage hammers home a conclusion with: "In the thirty-first place . . ." Another problem is Lonergan's disinterest in hurrying his ideas into print, or giving them wide circulation. Many of his most important lectures exist only in Latin mimeographed notes made by his students; like the late Ludwig Wittgenstein of Cambridge, his reputation rests on the memories and convictions of his peers...
...nature of human insight, how it relates to its various forms of expression, whether in the formulas of the physicist, the word pictures of the poet, the concepts of the philosopher. Insight, say Lonergan's followers, spells out the possibility of a transcultural philosophy that would allow thinkers from different traditions-Thomists and logical positivists, for example-to understand one another by paying attention first to each other's basic cognitional activity: how one unifies data, why he does so in a particular fashion. To understand someone else, says Lonergan, a thinker must first understand...
...spread beyond the seminary. He has widened the horizon of some of the best priestly minds of this generation. He has even made converts on the faculty of the Greg, and one doctoral student there says: "Not since Robert Bellarmine have so many been influenced by one Roman thinker." But if Lonergan does turn out to be one of the memorable shapers of Christian thought, it will take another generation of thinkers exploring his insights to prove it. As another of his students puts it: "He's still 38 years ahead of his time...