[Lonergan_l] "Art is a twofold freedom" INSIGHT, 185
nichola...@utoronto.ca
"Explanation does not give man a home" [INSIGHT, 547/570]
"Art is a twofold freedom. As it liberates experience from the drag of
biological purposiveness, so it liberates intelligence from the
wearying constraints of MATHEMATICAL proofs, SCIENTIFIC verifications,
and common-sense
factualness. For the validation of the artistic idea is the artistic
deed. The artist establishes his insights, not by proof or
verification, but by skilfully embodying them in colours and shapes,
in sounds and movements, in the unfolding situations and actions of
fiction. To the spontaneous joy of conscious living there is is added
the spontaneous joy free intellectual creation. [INSIGHT, 185]
I've noticed this website has become top-heavy with Mathematical and
Scientific models and concerns. If we climb up to Hermeneutical and
and Literary models and concerns, you will find no better guide than
Frye, which my quotations from Lonergan shows Lonergan to be open to.
Frye's treatment of "intellectual conversion" is beautifully presented
on page 154 of THE SECULAR SCRIPTURE.
For the purpose and topic of EDUCATION, I've Frye on nursery rhymes to
be the best.
Both Lonergan [Buckingham, Quebec] and Frye [Sherbrook, Quebec] are Canadians
and anyone who has only read one and not the other, is only half a Canadian!!
To fill out what Lonergan means by "free intellectual creatION"
mentioned above, I strongly recommend for your homework: DANTE: THE
POETICS OF CONVERSION [GOOGLE]
Cheers,
NWG
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Catherine B. King
As a brief follow-up to my earlier note, in "The Ongoing Genesis of Methods"
(Third Collection, p. 155) Lonergan states: "As long as human studies copy
the methods of the natural sciences, they obtain assured results, but they
minimize or omit the human world mediated by meaning and motivated by
value."
Your notes continue to imply that we all haven't caught the above insight
and that part of our "calling" is to bring the authentic methodical
underpinning and, therefore, the proper application of theory, to human
studies.
>From my reading of this list, most of us here have.
Catherine
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