Dear Denis, Many thanks for the account of Lonergan. I am sorry to say that I am not tempted. I can work out what a lot of the ideas are intended to do but I prefer simpler terminology to the private neologisms. Beyond that there seems to be a desire to unify things in a way that does not add up for me.  Thus, in terms of understanding 'self' the framework seems to encourage the conflations Leibniz got some way towards disentangling. It sounds rather as if there is a desire for some comforting religious agenda (heavily disguised by rational argument) somewhere in the background. I prefer to stick with Gottfried. His perfection pulled no punches.

Jo