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

Raymaker, John; Whalon, Pierre

ISBN 10: 1626000603 / ISBN 13: 9781626000605

Published by Marquette Univ Pr, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Attentive, Intelligent, Rational, and Responsible : Transforming Economics to Save the Planet
• Publisher: Marquette Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626000603
• ISBN 13: 9781626000605
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.