Towards a Luminous Darkness of circumstances. Insight after Forty Years
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In celebration of the appearance of B. Lonergan's Insight. Estudio sobre la comprensión humana, in Spanish (1999), McShane shares his own Quixotic climbing of that work since his first reading in 1957, and discusses a fundamental pointing towards the type of effort needed in appropriating Insight as we start a new millennium. With Ortega, Lonergan shares criticism of slovenly cultures, reverence for the openness of circumstances as against a certain identifiable closure, and the challenge for a massive cultural transition towards a third stage of meaning: a massive mediation of human interiority. This mediation transcends the old ones focused on common sense and theory. It is a new Quixotic time for individuals and the human race, pointing towards a new direction: the discovery of a luminous and self-taste extreme realism in our consciousnesses, and a needed hodic division of labour in the field of the mind.
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Lonergan, Ortega y Gasset, entendimiento humano, transición cultural, significiaciónLonergan, Ortega y Gasset, human understanding, cultural transition, meaning
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McShane, P. (2014). Towards a Luminous Darkness of circumstances. Insight after Forty Years. Universitas Philosophica, 16(32). Retrieved from https://ojspuj.repositoriodigital.com/index.php/vniphilosophica/article/view/11438
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