Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana: Tesi Gregoriana. Serie filosofia

Critical history is a philosophy of history that highlights the peculiarity and originality of the epistemology and methodology of Bernard Lonergan in the study of history. It is a method of reading the movement of history, through the Lonerganian creative criticism as well as a critical instrument that can help one rise above diverse forms of oversight and bias while working for progress in a human community. It tries to expound on how one can build personal capacities that work for the advantage of the common good. Its precepts can help one achieve self-transcendence and authenticity which are essential in the making of a creative society. It can inspire and create symbols that link one’s experience, imagination, rationality, responsibility and affectivity to authentic lived history. It can arouse an intellectual conversion that brings moral revival and can offer insights that help community planners in proposing proper solutions by identifying the actual drivers of progress, decline and re-covery in a society. Critical history creates an intellectual cultivation of mind and character achieved by insight which helps to build an authentic human person and progressive community. Its critical elements can lead to higher viewpoints that rise above prejudices, and these higher viewpoints can move one to integration to higher values. The result will be an authentic subjectivity and emergence of republic of virtues guided by objectivity and sound ethics.

La ricerca è stata condotta essenzialmente secondo il metodo ermeneutico computazionale ideato dal pioniere dell'informatica linguistica: P. Roberto Busa sj. Concretamente si è effettuato il rilevamento integrale statistico e classificato del lessico settoriale dei fatti economici stralciato dal lessico generale di S. Tommaso, quale esiste nei 56 volumi dell'Index Thomisticus. Il materiale lessicografico raccolto conferma così la lettura di alcuni autori contemporanei che riconoscono i pensieri tomistici sull'economia come parti di un dinamico quadro ermeneutico più ampio: metafisico, etico ed ecclesiologico. Il volume si apre con una presentazione del card. Georges Cottier.