Dans ce cours axé sur la discussion, nous examinerons comment les opérations de l’intentionnalité humaine déterminent l’objectivité de la connaissance, définissent la réalité et fixent les valeurs personnelles du sujet, selon Bernard Lonergan. Les participants dans ce cours pourront s’exprimer en français ou en anglais.
In this discussion-based course, we will focus on how human intentionality operations determine knowledge objectivity, define reality, and set human values, according to Bernard Lonergan. Participants in this course may communicate in French or English.
Nous considérerons des thèmes tels que: | We will consider topics such as:
* Comment les opérations conscientes forment un “connaître”? – How do conscious operations form a “knowing”?
* Que connaissons-nous en accomplissant ces opérations? – What do we know when we perform these operations?
* Qu’est-ce qu’un fait? – What is a fact?
* Qu’est-ce que le réel? – What is real?
* Quelle est la relation entre la subjectivité et l’objectivité? – What is the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity?
* Qu’est-ce que la vérité? – What is truth?
* Que pouvons-nous connaître? – What can we know?
New Participant: $110.00
Returning Participant: $155.00
Day: Every second Friday
Time: 1:30 to 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom
Course leader: Pierrot Lambert, Heather Stephens
First session: January 16 2026 (Last session 27 March 2026)
Course length: 6 sessions
Degree credit: 0 credits
Maximum number of participants: 16
Please note that the Thomas More Institute does not allow participants to audit courses for free.
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