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The Human Good

THE HUMAN GOOD -           Cl. Mario D’Couto sdb             As it has been observed that the human person is perhaps the most complicated being on this earth, to give a precise and exact definition of what the human good actually is would be a rather tedious task. Hence, according to Bernard Lonergan, he would define the human good by combining the various components of reality into one unified entity. These include skills, feelings, values, beliefs, co-operation, progress and decline. We shall now look at each of them in detail, (i) Skills: With regards to skills, Bernard Lonergan takes the ideas from Jean Piaget. Piaget analyzed the acquisition of skill into two elements: assimilation and adjustment. Assimilation refers to that phenomenon wherein we use our past knowledge in order to make sense of the present (learning) while adjustment is the phenomenon where one learns by trial ...