[Lonergan_l] "one can go on"

[Jaray...@aol.com]

Phil and all,

 

  Thank you, Phil, for focusing on the general (theological) categories and on the basic nest of terms and relations and their differentiations from which "one can go on to a developed account of the human good, values," etc (MiT, 287).

 

  If the question is how small groups of GEM students such as those subcribed to SGEME, SSI or this site are to "go on" developing the account BL refers to, then rather than using a military metaphor, I would note that in Insight BL taught us how to (strive to) achieve self-appropriation. In his two other major preocuppations that of developing a new original base for economics and a method for theology, BL seems to have had a parallel "diphase" strategy. In economics, his basic and series of surplus stages are related through a redistribution function and crossovers. In MiT, the two phases are linked by the foundational conversions and the above "nest of terms". In both cases, linked (feedback loop) phases are pivotal.

 

   Maybe I'm just stressing the obvious, but it seems to me that any SGEME (or Skipperweb) "hodic" work would be best done by pivoting on (never forgetting) the diphase process through which the basic terms and relations are first "verified" (MiT, 286) and then implemented. The book Insight devotes four chapters to "metaphysics". You too stress metaphysics as you do in your recent email:

 

  " The issue facing SGEME is, at present, the concrete promotion of
sensitivity, among Lonergan students, to the inattention - including our
own -  to "IMPLEMENTATION" as being of the essence of Lonergan's view of
metaphysics."

 

   So again thank you for stressing implementation and "going globally" in your response. Since not a few of us are involved in SSI, SGEME and Skippersite, those so inclined might tell us if they agree with Phil's assessment and how we could get SGEME and Skippersite to "go on" (or beginning to work) together as it were to achieve progressive and cumulative--not just casual--results. Is this not an indispensable sine-qua-non for implementation?  

 

 

John