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Self Knowledge as “First Philosophy:” Introducing Bernard Lonergan

Boston College 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill

Apply Here The seminar is co-presented by the Lonergan Institute. This graduate seminar is designed as an advanced introduction to the thought of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. The seminar will examine Lonergan’s approach to self-knowledge and “self-appropriation,” epistemology, and method in metaphysics and theology. The main text for the course will be Lonergan's seminal Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Upon first publication in 1957, Insight was greeted by reviewers as “probably… one of the great philosophical treatises of the century,” “a profound book… evincing an extraordinary sense for the persistent significance of ancient and medieval thought in the light of...