Part 2: Fecundity within Human Process: A few important distinctions and relations, but no big insights.
by David Fleischacker This is the second installment on a series that will give focused attention to statements and sections of Lonergan’s 1943 essay, Finality, Love, and Marriage. The focus […]...
Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal Finality (Z’ to Z”)
by David Fleischacker I have been re-reading “Finality, Love, and Marriage” written by Lonergan in 1943.[1] It is quite an interesting piece once you explore the details and interconnections of […]...
Form and Species or Form versus Species, 3rd ed.
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At death, are we still persons? Some argue that St. Thomas would say NO.
I heard yesterday of a current debate taking place within Thomist circles about what St. Thomas held regarding the corruption of the human person at death. For those who think St. Thomas […]...
Metaphysical Principles, 3rd ed. revised text
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Lonergan on Internal Relations: Accidents
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October 19, 2013 Insight Session: Mystery and Myth, immanence and transcendence in the world mediated by meaning
Notes for our Insight Session today. David Fleischacker Finally, we are resuming our Insight seminar, after a break since June 1. In June, we had started into a discussion on […]...
Potency: Aristotle, Aquinas, Lonergan
Potencynotes This paper exists as an excerpt belonging to a much larger work which attends to how acts of sensing, understanding, and judging are to be correlated with the metaphysical […]...
Form in Aquinas and Lonergan (revised notes 1/6/2013)
Form in Aquinas and Lonergan (revised notes 1/6/2013)...
Distinctions grasped by negative judgment
Insight Forum: Saturday September 29, 2012 On Saturday, September 29th, we will begin chapter 16, Metaphysics as Science in INSIGHT. The point of the chapter is to reveal the power […]...