Abstract Bernard Lonergan's analysis of intentional human consciousness—in contrast to “psyche,” another aspect of human mentality—stretches toward precision that is generally lacking in the social sciences. Incorporated into current psychology, this analysis could advance this field and other social sciences to the status of genuine science: explanatory and even normative or prescriptive. Built on that analysis, the notion of authenticity encapsulates the supposed “native spontaneities and inevitabilities of our consciousness” in four “transcendental precepts”—“Be attentive, Be intelligent, Be reasonable, Be responsible”—which parallel the four “levels” of conscious functioning: experience, understanding, judgment, and decision. This argument about authenticity rests on numerous highly debated philosophical presuppositions, which this article discusses to contextualize Lonergan's theory among others and to ground its claims: the theory's empirical basis; its naturalistic, non-theological, nature; its affirmation of spiritual (non-material) reality; its characterization of human consciousness as conscious as well as intentional, as dynamic, and as normative; and its status as explanatory. Against this background this article explicates authenticity as a key construct provocatively relevant to psychology.

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对洛纳根在心理学应用中的“真实性”的澄清

摘要 Bernard Lonergan 对有意的人类意识的分析——与“心理”相反，人类心态的另一个方面——延伸到社会科学中普遍缺乏的精确性。结合当前的心理学，这种分析可以将该领域和其他社会科学推向真正科学的地位：解释性的，甚至规范性的或规定性的。基于这种分析，真实性的概念将假定的“我们意识的本能自发性和必然性”封装在四个“先验戒律”中——“注意、聪明、合理、负责任”——平行于四个“层次”有意识的功能：经验、理解、判断和决定。这种关于真实性的论点建立在众多备受争议的哲学预设之上，本文讨论将 Lonergan 的理论与其他理论联系起来并为其主张奠定基础：该理论的经验基础；它的自然主义、非神学性质；它对精神（非物质）现实的肯定；它将人类意识描述为有意识的和有意的、动态的和规范的；以及它的解释状态。在此背景下，本文将真实性解释为与心理学相关的关键结构。