Abstract

Everyone recognizes that our present times are in crisis. This article begins by setting out the essential elements of this crisis: its origin in the scientific manner of envisaging the world, its axial character , and its economic and social consequences. The second half of the article draws from Bernard Lonergan some elements capable of going along with reflection on this crisis, without letting oneself become disheartened by its difficulties but facing them from different points of view, epistemological as well as anthropological or pedagogical. Lonergan is celebrated for his Insight, a philosophical work which introduced one to the theological reflection that he developed in Method in Theology, on account of the economic crisis of the thirties, the time of his youth, he was interested in economic questions before becoming a philosopher and a theologian