Collected here for the first time, this series of
lectures
delivered by
Lonergan at Boston College in 1957 illustrates
a pivotal time in Lonergan's intellectual history, marking
both the transition from the faculty psychology still
present in his work Insight to intentionality analysis and
his initial differentiation of the existential level of
consciousness.
The lectures on logic deal with the general character of
mathematical logic and its relation to truth,
Scholasticism, and Aristotelian logic. Continuing
Lonergan's long-standing interest in the foundations of
thought, the lectures on existentialism offer a penetrating
account of Husserl and his influence. They also deal with
Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Marcel. They offer
reflections on such topics as being oneself, dread,
horizon, and the existential gap. Perhaps more dramatically
than in any other work these papers reveal Lonergan's dual
commitment to the rigor of scientific analysis (in the
field of mathematical logic) and to the sensitivity of
continental philosophies to existential issues.
Contents
General Editors' Preface xi
Editor's Introduction xvii
Part 1 Lectures on Mathematical Logic
Part 2 Lonergan's Lecture Outlines
Part 3 Lectures On Existentialism
Appendix A Two Diagrams 319
Appendix B The Experience of Science 324
Appendix C Question Sessions 327
Appendix D Fragment on Heidegger 366
Appendix E Lonergan's Bibliographies 369
Index 381