Lonergan's Quest

William A. Mathews is an associate professor with the Centre for Philosophy at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy.

• Preface Introduction: Desire and the Shaping of an Author TRADITIONS AND THE EDUCATION OF DESIRE: THE APPRENTICESHIP OF A PROBLEM SOLVER, 1904–1940 Quebec Origins: A Classics Student, an Illness, and a Surprising Vocation Heythrop: Awakening to the Problem of KnowledgePuzzled in Montreal by the Depression and Plato’s IdeasStruggling with History and Reality in Rome before the War Postgraduate Studies in Theology: A New Road Taken FINDING AND FOLLOWING THE GOLDEN CORD OF THE HEART’S DESIREEconomics or Cognitional Theory: Towards Desire’s DecisionsInsights into Phantasms as the Origins of Words Thought and Reality: Measuring the Kantian BridgeAquinas on Cognition and Its Transcendence Toronto, the Operations of the Mind, and a Creative IllnessHuman Insights as Reflections of the Divine Nature COMPOSING INSIGHT: THE ARTISTRY OF DESIRE The Proto-Insight, 1949–1951 1949: The Vision of the First Beginning Experimenting with the Insights of Mathematicians and ScientistsThe Breakthrough to Cognitional StructureThe Mind’s Desire as the Key to the Relation of Thought and RealityExploring the Real Known World: A Metaphysical Beginning The Autograph, 1951–1953 Finally Beginning in the Middle: Common Sense, Consciousness, and Self-AffirmationInsights into Emergent ProbabilityInsights into the Dialectical Development of Common SenseInsights into the Irreducibility of ThingsInsights into Philosophical Method, Polymorphism, and Isomorphism Process Metaphysics: Finality, Development, the Human ImageOn Mythic and Philosophical Consciousness: Truth and Its Expression and InterpretationThe Cognitional and the Ethical Questions and Insights in ReligionIntroduction, Epilogue, Prefaces, PublicationEpilogue: Recollecting the Human MysteryNotes BibliographyBenard Lonergan IndexGeneral Index