Category: Marital Ethics

The Cosmological Foundations of Male and Female

Talk given at the Lonergan Institute, December 17, 2017 Dr. David Fleischacker Good evening. Next year is the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae.  It has ties to an earlier encyclical […]...

Lonergan and the Surd of Contraception

David Fleischacker, PhD, December 2008 (written 10 years ago) In 1943, Lonergan had written an essay on marriage, love, and finality.[1] In this essay he makes use of metaphysics to […]...

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 […]...

The Motherly Impulse

by David Fleischacker Generally, one thinks of nurturing when one thinks of motherhood. Usually I find a guttural revolt against this idea today. Yet intrinsically “to nurture” is a good […]...

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 […]...

Part 5a: Horizontal Finality, a note

… marriage is more an incorporation of the finality of sex than  of sex itself. (Finality, Love, Marriage, 45) On vacation, so this will be short.  Horizontal finality refers to […]...