One of the most profound authors I discovered this past year is
I have chosen this word to describe the category of posts in my blog that will describe the insight I am having as I grow and learn.
This is what Lonergan said to start his book. It is a helpful metaphor for understanding the importance of insight into the way we think.
“In the ideal detective story the reader is given all the clues yet fails to spot the criminal. He may advert to each clue as it arises. He needs no further clues to solve the mystery. Yet he can remain in the dark for the simple reason that reaching the solution is not the mere apprehension of any clue, not the mere memory of all, but a quite distinct activity of organizing intelligence that places the full set of clues in a unique explanatory perspective.
By insight, then, is meant not any act of attention or advertence or memory but the supervening act of understanding. It is not any recondite intuition but the familiar event that occurs easily and frequently in the moderately intelligent, rarely and with difficulty only in the very stupid, In itself it is so simple and obvious that it seems to merit the little attention that commonly it receives. At the same time, its function in cognitional activity is so central that to grasp 1t in its conditions, its working, and its results is to confer a basic yet startling unity on the whole field of human inquiry and human opinion.”[1]
The reason I pursue insight is based on the principle that what you don’t master, masters you! That is, without insight into what masters me, my thinking and therefore my life is governed by my explanatory frame and the "a priori" assumptions that result from that frame.
Upon my conversion to
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