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Here then is a book that gently, persistently and, I think, solidly
makes a case for incorporating Gandhi's insights into mainstream
economics. Gandhi and the Future of Economics is not meant to be a
research study of Gandhian economics. It is rather that kind of
felicitous publication that breathes new life into a known theme,
and, in doing so, brings out its implications for praxis. Even
better is the fact that it does all this in dialogue with a set of
contemporary thinkers and actors from the Indian sub-continent ..."
(from Ivo Coelho's preface)
Bernard Lonergan's notion of the 'universal viewpoint' is at once a
timely and an unpopular topic. The very term seems to violate the
postmodern concern for indigenous contexts, and yet, given the
development of information technologies, world courts and
international charters of rights, the need for universal frameworks
has never been greater. This study by Ivo Coelho shows Lonergan's
approach to be a complex blend of dialectic and dialogue that has
much to offer to a discourse on transcultural issues.Coelho shows
Lonergan's universal viewpoint to be an important hermeneutical
tool that makes its appearance in "Insight" but is seemingly
forgotten in the later works. He argues, however, that the notion
did not disappear, but rather underwent a shift. Using the Thomist
notion of wisdom (appropriated by Lonergan in his "Verbum"
articles) as a key for interpretation, Coelho traces the flowering
of the universal viewpoint into a mature theological method - one
that holds out the hope of an effective transcultural mediation of
meanings and values. Lonergan's approach to mediation, says Coelho,
neither compromises on the demands of truth nor neglects the very
real claims of difference.
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