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What makes the explosions all the more distressing is that they may have been caused by the same conditions that exist in a number of Japan's crowded, fast-growing cities. The normal method for subway construction, now under way in Tokyo and Sapporo as well as Osaka, is to excavate along street routes, then cover the tunnels with concrete-and-steel slabs. While workmen install the tracks below, vehicles can move over the slabs. But the combination of digging, construction and traffic vibrations is frequently too much for utility lines, and cracks appear. The trapped gas that caused...
...continued supervision. As with all effective drugs, they may cause side effects in some cases and should not be taken at all by some. Rare instances of abnormal blood clot ting are the most important known complications. These points were discussed with you when you chose this method of contraception...
Lonergan insists that his method is rigorously empirical. His Insight devotes some 750 pages to a closely reasoned demonstration that the same process of understanding that applies to "insights" in mathematics and the physical sciences also applies to theology. To a neophyte, he will patiently explain that it all boils down to three questions: "What am I doing when I am knowing? Why is that knowing? What do I know when I do that...
Lonergan's method is his own, but he clearly owes a debt to the phenomenologists, particularly to German Philosopher Edmund Husserl. For the phenomenologist, the material evidence of a perceived object is screened by the dynamic (and very personal) phenomenon of the act of knowing. Husserl developed this into the idea of "horizon" - the vastness or narrowness of the world a man perceives. For Husserl, a man's horizon is limited by his per spective: his environment, his loves and fears, his interests and prejudices...
...that information to formulate new questions, and continue to grow. By thus transcending his limitations, a man undergoes "conversion," which may be moral, intellectual, social or religious. In Lonergan's approach to theology, which he will spell out in detail in a forthcoming major work to be called Method in Theology, the ultimate horizon "is an openness to an experience...