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title	:	The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry Aquinas Lecture ; 1989
author	:	Lauer, Quentin.
publisher	:	Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0874621569
print isbn13	:	9780874621563
ebook isbn13	:	9780585141398
language	:	English
subject	Philosophy, Values.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	B73.L38 1989eb
ddc	:	101
subject	:	Philosophy, Values.

Page i The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry The Aquinas Lecture, 1989 Under the Auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau by Quentin Lauer, S.J. Marquette University Press Milwaukee 1989

Page ii Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 88-64165 Copyright 1989 Marquette University Press ISBN 0-87462-156-9

Page iii Prefatory The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. The 1989 Aquinas Lecture, The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry, was delivered on Sunday, February 26, 1989, by the Reverend Quentin Lauer, S.J., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Fordham University. Father Lauer received a B.A. from St. Louis University in 1941 and an M.A. in 1944. He received an S.T.L. and a Docteur s Lettres from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in 1955. He has taught at Fordham University from 1954 to the present; he has been visiting professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, at the New School for Social Research, and at the University of Texas. He has lectured at over thirty universities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Brazil. His books include: G. K. Chesterton: Philosopher without Portfolio (1988), Hegel's Concept of God (1982), Essays in Hegelian Dialectic (1976), A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1976; rev. 1982), Hegel's Idea of Philosophy (1971), A Christian-Communist Dialogue (with Roger Garaudy, 1968), Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy (1965), The Triumph of Subjectivity (1958; rev. 1979), Edmund Husserl: La philosophie comme science rigoureuse (1955), and La phnomnologie de Husserl (1955). He has also published numerous articles

Page iv in learned journals and contributed articles and chapters to some twenty books. Fr. Lauer is a member and past president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, and a member and past president of the Hegel Society of America. He is also a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the Metaphysical Society of America. He received the Aquinas Medal from the ACPA in 1985. He is an honorary member of the Hegel Society of Great Britain and of Phi Beta Kappa. His book, Hegel's Concept of God received the Alpha Sigma Nu award for the best book in the humanities in 1982. To Father Lauer's distinquished list of publications, Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add: The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry.

Page v The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry by Quentin Lauer, S.J. Introduction 1 I. What is Philosophy? 15 II. Philosophy in a Changing World 37 III. Moral Values 47 IV. Philosophy and Science 79 V. The Function of Philosophical Thinking 101 Epilogue 131

Page 1 The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry by Quentin Lauer, S.J. Introduction Forty-eight years ago I published my first piece of what is called "scholarly research" in philosophy. (I would be just as happy if no one were today to take the trouble to read that juvenile attempt.) Since then I have engaged in a good deal of scholarly research, while building up an ardent desire to get beyond scholarship and to publish a philosophical book with no footnotes, i.e., no "scholarship," only a kind of outpouring of some of the thinking I have been doing over the years. There is, after all, more to thinking philosophically than mere scholarship. Some of those who read what is written here may have read one or another of the other things I have published books, chapters in books, articles, and book reviews and they may find that here I frequently quote myself without employing quotation marks. I take the liberty of doing this, because it underlines the fact that I stick by what I have said before or, perhaps, develop, alter, nuance, or drop what I have said before and I say it on my own, not as commentary on or exegesis of what someone else has said. I trust that my thinking has

Page 2 developed over 48 years, but I trust, too, that the developing constitutes a change in but not a change of a way of thinking change, after all, is meaningful only where what changes continues to remain the same. It should be obvious to anyone who reads what is written here that the philosophical reflection it presents and from which it flows is inseparable from the religious experience and commitment which has formed both my thinking and my life. For that I make no apologies; I know of no religiously committed philosopher who is not influenced in his or her philosophical thinking by that commitment. If philosophical thinking consists in a rational reflection on experience, it is significant only as a reflection on the whole of one's experience, including one's religious experience. Perhaps it might be better to characterize it at this point as a

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