The Spiritual Emergent: Lonergan's View of Science and the Human Person

Philosophy and Culture 33 (11):127-147 (2006)
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Recently, physics and life sciences, and especially the development of neuroscience, is already leading the people to accept a rigid form of reductionism. Where the human intellect, human initiative and awareness can be identified as a purely biological vocabulary to explain. This article describes the root of the Nepalese people learn Lang; This paper argues that the root Lang Nepalese understanding of human nature-bit cell based on this idea in the legislation but the two pillars, namely: the theory of knowledge by virtue of this position is, but verifiable truth can be comprehension; and its understanding of the history of the world compared to emergent probability. Human-bit cell is considered to be material and spiritual unity, both understandable and rational. This paper examines the nature of matter and spirit, and such as dualism and monism of the opposition, the emergence of human consciousness and the spiritual nature is also a topic of concern in this paper. Current developments in the physical and life sciences and especially in neuro-science have led many to accept a strong form of reductionism where it is presumed that human intelligence, human agency and consciousness will be explainable in purely biological terms. The anthropology of Bernard Lonergan is described. Lonergan's understanding of the human person is built on two pillars of this thought: his basic epistemological stance that the real is verified intelligibility and his understanding of world process as emergent probability. The human person is seen to be a unity of the material and the spiritual that is both intelligible and intelligent. The nature of the material and the spiritual are considered. Questions such as dualism versus monism, the emergence of human consciousness and the nature of the soul are considered.

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