Ignatius’s Exercises, Descartes’s Meditations, and Lonergan’s Insight

Both René Descartes and Bernard Lonergan were educated at Jesuit schools in their youth, and both had exposure - the former perhaps indirectly, the latter directly - to Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. Several scholars have outlined parallels between Descartes’s Meditations on First Philoso...

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Published in:Philosophy & theology
Main Author: Allen, Jeffrey A. (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Marquette Univ. Press [2017]
In: Philosophy & theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-28
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ignacio, de Loyola 1491-1556, Exercitia spiritualia / Descartes, René 1596-1650, Meditationes de prima philosophia / Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 1904-1984, Insight
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDB Roman Catholic Church
VA Philosophy
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Summary:Both René Descartes and Bernard Lonergan were educated at Jesuit schools in their youth, and both had exposure - the former perhaps indirectly, the latter directly - to Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. Several scholars have outlined parallels between Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy and the Exercises. This article reviews those parallels, and then uses them as guides for exploring traces of the Meditations in Lonergan’s Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
ISSN:0890-2461
Contains:Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/philtheol201611868