Conceptualism, classicism and Bernard Lonergan’s retrieval of Aquinas
Bernard Lonergan distinguishes the emergence of classical culture correlative with the ‘Greek discovery of mind’ from its classicist degeneration. Drawing on Lonergan’s Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas, I shall argue that the key to grasping the difference between the classical ideal and its classic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2013
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Pacifica
Year: 2013, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-58 |
| Further subjects: | B
classical culture
B Historical Consciousness B Aquinas B Conceptualism B Classicism B empirical culture B Scotus B Lonergan |
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| Summary: | Bernard Lonergan distinguishes the emergence of classical culture correlative with the ‘Greek discovery of mind’ from its classicist degeneration. Drawing on Lonergan’s Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas, I shall argue that the key to grasping the difference between the classical ideal and its classicist aberration lies in their respective cognitional theories, the former typified by an intellectualism traceable to Aristotle and Aquinas and the latter by an intuitionism traceable proximately to Scotus that Lonergan labels conceptualism. If a conceptualist account remains incapable of meeting the challenges concomitant with the emergence of modern science, historical scholarship and philosophy, Lonergan argues that an authentic retrieval of Aquinas provides the basis for responding to the breakdown of the classical control of meaning. |
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| ISSN: | 1839-2598 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pacifica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1030570X12469086 |