Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, Volume 3: 003 (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan) by Bernard Lonergan

Author:Bernard Lonergan [Lonergan, Bernard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: PHI022000, SOC000000
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1992-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

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Elements of Metaphysics

As the preceding chapter outlined a program, so the present chapter turns to its execution. We have to make explicit the latent metaphysics of the human mind, and the first step is to establish its elements. There are six of them:a central potency, central form, central act, conjugate potency, conjugate form, and conjugate act. In the light of earlier chapters, it will be a relatively brief task to distinguish and relate them. But the prevalence of counterpositions made it seem inadvisable, if not impossible, to tackle the problem of genetic method until we were able to employ our basic metaphysical concepts; and so the present chapter owes its length and any complexity it may possess to the necessity of clarifying the notion of development and of outlining the heuristic structure of genetic method both in general and as applied to the organism, to the psyche, to intelligence, and to the combination of all three in man.

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