Category: David Fleischacker

Lonergan and the Shift to Method

by David Fleischacker   Method can be looked at as technique. This of course entirely misses the meaning of method as Lonergan conceived of it. For Lonergan, method is a […]...

Gender Ideology, Evolution, and Finality

I just returned from a fantastic conference on gender ideology in Denver. I use ideology in the Voegelinian sense, as a deformation of the metaxy or the in-between. Eric Voegelin […]...

Insight into Chemistry: Introduction

by David Fleischacker In Insight, Lonergan makes use of chemistry as one of the examples of higher and lower genii of things in this universe.  Biology is a higher integration […]...

Judgment and the Recovery of Being

by Dr. David Fleischacker Lonergan’s explanatory formulation of the interior structure of judgment dismantles one of the great culprits of the modern world that has left vast reaches of the […]...

From David Fleischacker

Just a quick note.  I will be publishing a reflection every Friday at 3 pm. Most of these will be short pointers and thoughts about the writings of Bernard Lonergan. […]...

Feeding the thirst of Jesus Christ

Why does Jesus need or want us to feed him? It would seem that the only appropriate relation to him is to allow him to feed us. Very true of […]...

Part 8:  Love in Finality, Love, and Marriage

by David Fleischacker Further, love is the act of a subject (principium quod), and as such it is the principle of union between different subjects. Such union is of two […]...