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Classical culture cannot be jettisoned without being replaced; and what replaces it cannot but run counter to classical expectations. There is bound to be formed a solid right that is determined to live in a world that no longer exists. There is bound to be formed a scattered left, captivated by now this, now that new development, exploring now this and now that new possibility. But what will count is perhaps a not too numerous center, big enough to be at home in both the old and the new, painstaking enough to work out one by one the transitions to be made, strong enough to refuse half measures and insist on complete solutions even though it has to wait.

Bernard Lonergan, SJ

Australian Lonergan Workshop II Australian Lonergan Workshop II, Edited by Matthew C Ogilvie & William J Danaher Published by Novum Organum Press, December 2002 ISBN 0-9750207-0-6

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Metaphysics, Thomas V. Daly, SJ

Ethical Notions Conditioning Lonergan's Economics, Peter Burley

A preliminary comparison of Lonergan’s economics with the usual rationalist utilitarian economics is suggestive of how the former could enrich the latter. “Rationalist” appears here as effectively trying to use Lonergan’s level 3 to substitute for levels 1, 2 and 4 (and 5?). Here we consider mainly the consequences of abstracting from technological change and from interpersonal responsibility; which lead to the “time preference” and “prisoner’s dilemma” problematics.

This is an introductory paper on Lonergan's theory of knowing. It begins by explaining the cognitional myth that knowing is like looking, then goes on to address the question "What am I doing when I am knowing?"

Mind - Your Own Business, John Little

The author has been developing a one day workshop with Tom Daly to help managers experience and appropriate the structure of knowing. The first part of the paper describes the background to the workshop and the second part discusses some of the images used in the 70 page workbook which participants use to record their responses to exercises and activities in the workshop. The paper concludes with an overview of a questionnaire which the author designed to profile personal and organisational strengths based on competencies developed by Tom Daly.

A dual of the Lonergan production scheme can be used to clarify and justify differences in church teaching on the subject of usury before and after the era of major economic development. More specifically it provides a systematic rationale of the lucrum cessans  of the Jesuit moralists of the Silver Age of Scholasticism whom Schumpeter so much admired as economists. A Lonergan treatment of their damnum emergens  would, however, call for another (statistical) paper

Most of the author’s work on the Lonergan paradigm of economics has been in terms of a 2-level von Neumann model. Here we generalize to a 3-level model which introduces further explanatory features of the n-level Lonergan scheme.  This last  would seem to be a general Jordan form of any von Neumann production  system, provided we allow for composite goods.

Religious Experience and God's Call to Prayer, Peter Beer, SJ

Did Jesus Have Faith in God? Peter Beer, SJ

The Redemptive Vicarious Suffering of Christ: An Inquiry, Peter Beer, SJ

The Historical Jesus and Human Subjectivity: A Response to a Recent Suggestion, Anthony J. Kelly, CSSR

The article, taking as it starting point aa programmatic statement of John Meier on researching ‘the Historical Jesus’, is a critical examination of what is involved in Christian faith seeking historical understanding through the scholarly methods now in use.  It highlights the necessity of attending to the role of  subjectivity in this kind of Christological investigation, and indicates the complexity of the issues involved.  To this degree it is a prolonged reflection on Lonergan’s axiom, ‘genuine objectivity is the fruit of authentic subjectivity’ in the context of historical and biblical investigation.

Subsidiarity vs. Centralism: A Dialectic of Contradictories in the Political Order, James Mackinnon

This paper is a report on work in progress/genesis. It covers elements in Darwin's methodology relating to the drive to know, naive realism, the Malthusian insight and classicism.

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