Attentive, Intelligent, Rational, and Responsible: Transforming Economics to Save the Planet - Softcover

Raymaker, John ; Whalon, Pierre

9781626000605: Attentive, Intelligent, Rational, and Responsible: Transforming Economics to Save the Planet

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ISBN 10: 1626000603 ISBN 13: 9781626000605

Verlag: Marquette University Press, 2023

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In a major development of the wide-ranging philosophy of Bernard Lonergan, authors John Raymaker and Pierre Whalon argue for a new economics responsive to the social and environmental crises of the twenty-first century. Extending Lonergan's major innovations in philosophy and linking them to his lifelong work in macroeconomics, Raymaker and Whalon elucidate Lonergan's implicit aim of applying ethics to economic processes. At the heart of their argument lies the necessity of societal economic and environmental "conversion," or "movement from one world of meaning to another," to complement the series of individual conversions Lonergan identified as integral to the processes of cognition in his best-known work, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding.Taking a holistic view of Lonergan's lifework, within which his great philosophical studies Insight and Method in Theology are "sandwiched" between his two volumes on economics, Raymaker and Whalon examine the ways Lonergan's thought exposes the inherent flaws of the dominant economic theories and practices that have guided policies around the globe to the detriment of human flourishing and the destruction of the environment. At the same time, they show how Lonergan's generalized empirical method, in combination with his work on economics, points to an economically sound, socially transformative, and environmentally healing way forward.

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John Raymaker was born in Brussels Belgium, then lived in the USA, earning a doctorate in social ethics in 1977. He lived in Tokyo from 1981 until 2003, working at the Oriens Institute for Religious Research and teaching cultural anthropology at Hosei and Junshin universities. Since 2003, he has lived in Germany writing books on the Vatican and Bernard Lonergan's breakthrough method.Pierre Whalon is a bishop of the Episcopal Church, serving the Convocation of Episcopal Church in Europe from 2001 to 2019. Before that, he served as priest in three parishes, two in Pennsylvania and one in Florida. He is also a published author of many articles and three books, as well as a music composer.

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“The philosophical theology and economic ideas of the Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan (1904-84) form the superstructure of the book. Its genius lies in the authors’ fusing the fruit of their scholarship with Lonergan’s ideas without disturbing the flow of their argument. The two scholars detail carefully, but unapologetically, why they’ve had to draw from a theologian to correct the errors of economists. For, in Lonergan, they find a rich tapestry of economic ideas and “fresh original thinking” that can help resolve some contested issues in economics… The realities of contemporary global society cry for such a development and prompt us to ask: How does Lonergan’s economics fit the new world global financial market? Does his economic theory adequately address how we can overcome the limitations of those social and economic engineers who are content with making the masses seem like raw materials of rich people’s economic propaganda? “Attentive, Intelligent, Rational, and Responsible”: Transforming Economics to Save the Planet answers these questions and many more.” — Cyril Orji (from the Foreword)

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