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Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan, SJ, CC (17 December 1904 – 26 November 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian, regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.〔"Lonergan is considered by many intellectuals to be the finest philosophic thinker of the 20th century." ''Time,'' April 27, 1970, p. 10. Cf. Fellows of the Woodstock Theological Center, ''The Realms of Desire: An Introduction to the Thought of Bernard Lonergan'', (Washington, D.C.: Woodstock Theological Center, 2011), pp. 3-6; in addition to recording their own estimate of Lonergan's importance, the authors cite the opinions of many others.〕 Lonergan's works include ''Insight: A Study of Human Understanding'' (1957) and ''Method in Theology'' (1972), as well as two studies of Thomas Aquinas, several theological textbooks, and numerous essays, including two posthumously published essays on macroeconomics. A projected 25-volume Collected Works is underway with the University of Toronto Press. He held appointments at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Regis College, Toronto, as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Boston College, and as Stillman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. ==Aims== Lonergan set out to do for human thought in our time what Thomas Aquinas had done for his own time. Aquinas had successfully applied Aristotelian thought to the service of a Christian understanding of the universe.〔Bernard J.F. Lonergan, ''Grace and Freedom: Operative Grace in the Thought of St Thomas Aquinas'', Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan vol. 1, ed. Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2000), p. 143.〕 Lonergan's program was to come to terms with modern scientific, historical, and hermeneutical thinking in a comparable way.〔Cf. Bernard J.F. Lonergan, "''Insight'' Revisited," in ''A Second Collection'', ed. William F.J. Ryan and Bernard J. Tyrrell (Philadelphia: Wesminster, 1974), pp. 263-278 at pp. 268, 277; idem, ''Method in Theology'' (New York: Seabury, 1972), p. xi.〕 He pursued this program in his two most fundamental works, ''Insight'' and ''Method in Theology''.〔Bernard J.F. Lonergan, ''Insight: A Study of Human Understanding'', Collected Works vol. 3, ed. Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1992); idem, ''Method in Theology'' (New York: Seabury, 1972).〕 The key to Lonergan's project is "self-appropriation," that is, the personal discovery and personal embrace of the dynamic structure of inquiry, insight, judgment, and decision. By self-appropriation, one finds in one's own intelligence, reasonableness, and responsibility the foundation of every kind of inquiry and the basic pattern of operations undergirding methodical investigation in every field.〔Bernard J.F. Lonergan, ''Insight: A Study of Human Understanding'', Collected Works vol. 3, ed. Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1992), pp. 11-24; idem, ''Method in Theology'' (New York: Seabury, 1972), pp. 3-25.〕 He is often associated with his fellow Jesuits Karl Rahner, Emerich Coreth, and Joseph Marechal as a "transcendental Thomist", i.e., a philosopher who attempts to combine Thomism with certain views or methods commonly associated with Kant's transcendental idealism.〔Otto Muck, ''The Transcendental Method'' (New York: Herder and Herder, 1968.〕 However, Lonergan did not regard this label as particularly helpful for understanding his intentions.〔''Method in Theology'', pp. 13-14 n. 4.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bernard Lonergan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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