Empowering Bernard Lonergan's legacy : toward implementing an ethos for inquiry and a global ethics / John Raymaker ; [foreword by Philip McShane].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Historical And Intercultural Backgrounds -- Lonergan's Notions of "Matrix" and "Feedback" -- ch. 1 Generalized Empirical Method (GEM) as Possible "Feedback Matrices" -- First Historical Feedback Matrix: Situating GEM's Mediating, Transformative Roles -- chapter 2 Two Further Feedback Matrices: Historical Implications -- Metaphysical Equivalence and the Limitations of Various Analyses -- A Second Historical Feedback Matrix: How Lonergan (GEM) Goes Beyond Aquinas -- Third Historical Feedback Matrix: How Lonergan (GEM) Reconciles Galileo, Pascal, and Einstein --

part II. An Ethically Empowering Foreground -- Coordinating Lonergan's Legacy -- chapter 3 Transitional Issues in Evaluating Holistic-GEM-FS Collaboration -- chapter 4 Implementing the Functional Specialties in Two Phases -- Fourth GEM-Fs Feedback Matrix: Functional Collaboration And Grounding Ethics -- A First Complementarity-Dialectical Phase: Grounding GEM Operations -- Transition to Fig. 3b's Second Cooperative Dialectical Phase -- chapter 5 Fifth Feedback Matrix: A Structured IGEMA Operating as a Collaborative FS Feedback Matrix to Implement the Human Good.

Raymaker offers an interdisciplinary approach to Bernard Lonergan's work. He presents a series of five "feedback matrices" to situate his work within a historical context. One can best empower Lonergan's legacy through a correct understanding and implementation of how the data of human consciousness affects all human knowledge and activities.