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Many consider Bernard Lonergan the outstanding Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, and his Insight: A Study in Human Understanding (1957) is a brilliant but difficult work that has challenged innumerable readers.What Is Lonergan Up to in Insight? is an accessible introduction to the leading ideas of Lonergan's massive and major achievement in which he focuses on the dynamics of scien…
“Maka ilmu pengetahuan haruslah berpihak dengan tegas, dan harus meninggalkan klaim netralitasnya. Ilmu pengetahuan haruslah berpijak dan berpihak untuk membela kepentingan orang-orang yang tertindas, seperti para korban ekonomi kapitalisme, kaum minoritas yang tertindas, maupun kaum perempuan yang masih mengalami diskriminasi. Namun apakah dengan begitu, ilmu pengetahuan kehilangan obyektivi…
Bernard Lonergan's Insight, one of the great philosophical works of the 20th century, is without question a challenging book for beginning readers. In this practical and welcome work, Terry J. Tekippe provides readers with a first reading guide, emphasizing what is truly essential and central to the book. The plan of the guide is not to cover everything in the book, but to assign readings of…
In this book, the author of "Language, Truth and Logic" tackles one of the central issues of philosophy - how we can know anything - by setting out all the sceptic's arguments and trying to counter them one by one.