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I thought I saw the fallen flower Returning to its branch Only to find it was a butterfly 1 Context and DivisionsThe editor has raised what for me is the central present problem of Lonergan studies.His invitation to me is that I provide an etching of the problem, a brief basis for discussion.Immediately I think of Fr.Fred Crowe's old question, What functional speciality are you working in?, and my reply has to be an honest "none."This seems to me to be an important but simple aspect of the present problem.If one takes Lonergan's methodological doctrine, as described in Method in Theology, seriously, then one has to attempt some contribution to its implementation.Initially, such contributions are bound to be shabby.So, for example, history according to the von Ranke norm, sentence by sentence, proposition by proposition, is not easily accomplished.In present practice, in all fields, historical writing tends to mesh with what will eventually be identified as interpretational efforts.It can reach further, into research on the one hand, into evaluative writing on the other.Indeed, even when the writer struggles to be Rankian, the history tends towards being general, undifferentiated both in the functional 15 Method, 260. 16 Ibid, 286-7.Note the absence of reference to chapter 19.I suspect that this was due to an attitude of some participants in the 1970 Florida Conference.In later years he indicated that he had not backed down on the drive through the book to the existence of God. 17 I refer to Volumes 15 and 21 of the Collected Works.The integral perspective is offered in the book referenced in note 5 above.The original suggested title (see CWL 21, 325) was Lonergan's Economics: Structures and Implementations. 18 The neologism, with the shift from an inner e to an inner a, has, of course, all sorts of resonances, but as it stands it is acceptable to empiricists, pragmatists, whatever; by idealists in their own way; even by those who consider the a as epiphenomenal.19 "The division of labour, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase in the productive power of labour."(Adam Smith, chapter one of The Wealth of Nations.) 26 Lonergan, in De Deo Trino I : Pars Dogmatica (Rome: Gregorian Press, 1964), 10, n.10, translates this as displacement towards system.He had not yet envisaged the functional system but he was, in that text, struggling to build in the perspective of a genetic systematics that would be a full and just retrieval of history.See note 23 above. 27 This work was done in connection with my editing of CWL 18, springing from an analysis of Husserl's essay "On the Origin of Geometry," which is given as an Appendix to his last work on The Crisis of European Science.It forms part of chapter three of Pastkeynes.There is a fuller consideration of Husserl on geometry and Science in chapters 3 and 4 of my Lack in the Beingstalk: A Giants Causeway.(This is the sequel to

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