Understanding.. (+Munster!)

Bernard Lonergan (philosopher and theologian) is recognised as one of the most significant philosophic thinkers of this century. He spent most of his adult life working on a theory of knowledge that covers every area of human understanding and to discover the nature and quality of the process of insight.
In his writings Lonergan aimed to clarify what occurs in any discipline - science, maths, art, literature, philosophy, theology, and ethics. Older philosophers such as Aristotle and Galileo, sought to understand unchanging essentials and logic and law were the rule. However, with changing society, philosophies have turned to understanding the innate methods of mind by which scientists and scholars discover what they do not yet know and create what does not yet exist. Central to Lonergan’s understanding of human knowing was the human ability to ask questions and the sense of reverence and awe in the present of that power recognised as a gift.
For many years he explored the question of how the mind operated as it follows its own dynamic process towards understanding, asking ‘What do we do when we come to know?’ In answering this question, Lonergan published Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957).
There are four questions, as it were, that are proposed for anyone seeking to ground the methods of any discipline/ i.e develop an understanding or insight
1. What do I do when I know?
2. Why is doing that knowing?
3. What do I know when I do it?
4. What therefore should we do?
Today’s food for thought! And well done to Munster ona terrific win on Saturday - great match, (and what an atmosphere, would have been great to have been there!)