Philosophy as hermeneutical

Lonergan says that he wants philosophy to become existential and concrete, but keeps repeating that he conceives of philosophy as arising from answers to three basic questions: what am I doing when I am knowing, why is doing that knowing, and what do I know when I do that. These answers, he says, are cognitional theory, epistemology, and metaphysics.

This kind of statement is, of course, baffling to anyone who has not waded through - or should I say braved the crossing - of the 700 odd pages of Insight. Fred Lawrence's way of putting it might be more accessible: Lonergan's existential and concrete philosophy is really a question of a hermeneutics of cognitive, existential, and religious interiority.