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Lonergan and the Philosophy of Historical Existence Thomas J. McPartland University of Missouri Press LONERGAN and the Philosophy of Historical Existence ERIC VOEGELIN INSTITUTE SERIES IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY L O N E R G A N and the Philosophy of Historical Existence s Thomas J. McPartland UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS COLUMBIA AND LONDON Copyright © 2001 by The Curators of the University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 05 04 03 02 01 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McPartland, Thomas J., 1945– Lonergan and the philosophy of historical existence / Thomas J. McPartland. p. cm. — (Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8262-1345-6 (alk. paper) 1. Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 2. Consciousness. 3. History—Philosophy. 4. Voegelin, Eric, 1901– I. Title. II. Series. BD995.L654 M37 2001 191— dc21 2001027424 ¿This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984. Designer: Kristie Lee Typesetter: The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printer and Binder: The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Typeface: Berkeley For permissions see p. 305 The University of Missouri Press offers its grateful acknowledgment for a generous contribution from the Eric Voegelin Institute in support of the publication of this volume. For My Parents This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi Introduction 1 Part I. Lonergan’s Foundational Worldview 1 Lonergan’s Philosophy of Consciousness 9 Age of Consciousness 10 Lonergan: Philosopher of Consciousness 12 Normative Structure of Consciousness 14 Self and Self-Knowledge 17 2 From Classicism to Emergent Probability: Lonergan’s Notion of Development 25 Aristotle: Rudiments of Development 27 Plato and Aristotle: Human Development 29 Lonergan’s Notion of Development 31 Lonergan’s Notion of Human Development 40 Lonergan’s Notion of Historical Development 45 Part II. Historical Existence 3 Dialectic of History 55 Dialectic of Historical Interpretations 56 Lonergan and Dialectic 64 History 69 4 Historicism and Historicity: Two Perspectives on History 76 Historicism 79 vii viii Contents The Epistemological Assumptions of Historicism 82 Historicity 94 Emerging Intellectual Horizon 106 5 Reason and History 108 Classicism and Historicism 109 Reason 116 Reason and History 120 6 Cosmopolis: The Community of Open Existence 125 Cosmos and Polis 126 Cosmopolis and Historicity 129 Cosmopolis and the Challenge of History 135 7 Historicity and the Event of Philosophy 141 Lonergan and Historical Consciousness 142 Philosophy and Existence 147 The Subjective Pole of Philosophy 147 Philosophy and Religious Experience 150 Noetic Consciousness and History 154 Engaging the Philosophical Past 159 Dialectic of Philosopher and Philosophical Tradition 159 Philosophy and Relativism 162 Historical Consciousness and Functional Specialties 165 Mythopoesis 168 Philosophy and Praxis 173 Philosophical Therapy and Existential Deformation 173 Philosophy and Intellectual Culture 177 Part III. Authentic Existence 8 Dread and the Horizon of Existence 183 Self-Transcendence 185 Dread 186 Suffering 187 Guilt 187 Shame 188 Ressentiment 190 Contents ix 9 Noetic Science: Aristotle, Voegelin, and the Philosophy of Consciousness 193 Political Science and Noetic Science 194 Voegelin and Aristotle 196 Nousand Theoros:The Historical Context 198 Epistemeand Nous 199 Cognitive Habits 200 Cognitive Acts 201 Principle of Science 202 Nousas Episteme 203 The Self-Luminosity of Nous 204 Nousand Phronesis 205 Limits of Aristotle’s Analysis 207 Noetic Science as Philosophy of Consciousness 209 10 Self-Appropriation in Lonergan and Voegelin 214 Lonergan’s Reflective Subjectivity 215 Voegelin’s Existential Exegesis 220 Comparative Assessment 222 11 Equivalence of Meaning: Lonergan’s Cognitional Theory and Voegelin’s History of Symbols 226 Response to the Crisis 229 Lonergan’s Cognitional Theory 237 Lonergan’s Expanded Cognitional Theory 245 Historical Existence 253 Lonergan-Voegelin Dialogue 265 Bibliography 273 Index 289
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