Bernard Lonergan

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TRTrust in Reason

  8 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• RTReverence for Tradition

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Anselm of CanterburyCARTOGRAPHER

  Faith seeking understanding; the ontological argument from definition.

• Duns ScotusCARTOGRAPHER

  Univocity of being; haecceitas — the "thisness" that individuates.

• Albertus MagnusCARTOGRAPHER

  Aristotle baptized — natural philosophy as a path to divine wisdom.

• Ramon LlullCARTOGRAPHER

  His Ars Magna was combinatorial logic meant to convert through reason alone.

• Tariq RamadanCARTOGRAPHER

  European Islam — internal reform without secular flattening.

• Avicebron (Ibn Gabirol)LIGHTHOUSE

  In Fons Vitae, even spiritual substances are composed of universal matter and form.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Bernard Lonergan's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.