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A friend, John Raymaker, and I wrote a book last year called “Attentive, Intelligent, Rational, Responsible”: Transforming Economics to Save the World. Marquette University Press picked it up, thankfully. A friend described them as a publisher “punching above their weight, very underestimated.” (Check out their catalogue…)
In any event, we are grateful to Marquette, because our book is complex. We try to argue that Bernard Lonergan’s economics is a model for his general empirical method.
Huh?
I know. But it really is very practical. Let me explain…
Explaining…
Bernard Lonergan (1900–1984) was a Canadian Jesuit best known for his studies of human understanding, in two books, Insight: A Study in Human Understanding, and Method in Theology. This latter is what he is best known for, though oddly, it really isn’t just a method for theologians, but in fact, for anyone who wants to think. “Attentive, Intelligent, Rational, Responsible” is the heart of the matter: this is how the mind works in order to find truth. Or if I am unattentive, stupid, biased, or irresponsible, my thinking will be wrong.
Simply put, this is a “general empirical method” and it works in every sphere of human attempts to know. For it…
