Podcast of Insight Seminar held on March 24, 2012 is up
You can find the podcast for the latest Insight Seminar held on March 24, 2012 in the Insight forum. This session examined the application of Genetic Method to organic development […]...
March 10, 2012 Insight Podcast Now Up (good quality audio and discussion)
The podcast from latest Insight seminar held on March 10 is now up in the Insight forum. The discussion and quality of the audio were both very good....
Material is not the visible, Spiritual is not the invisible.
by David Fleischacker There is a simple yet important distinction made by Lonergan regarding the meaning of the material and the spiritual. I remember in Fr. Joseph Flanagan's class on […]...
Material is not the visible, Spiritual is not the invisible.
by David Fleischacker There is a simple yet important distinction made by Lonergan regarding the meaning of the material and the spiritual. I remember in Fr. Joseph Flanagan's class on […]...
Two Rival Notions of Being: Rosmini, Heidegger, Rahner, and Lonergan rev. ed.
In the theology of Antonio Rosmini (d. 1855), one finds an understanding about human cognition where human beings work from an initial, ideal, indeterminate notion or idea of being […]...
Identity in Human Cognition
It is no easy task to try to understand the principle of identity in human cognition. In order to do so, I would like to proceed by first looking at […]...
Aquinas’s Distinction between Natural Being and Intentional Being
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In Aristotle, De Anima, 3, 4, 430a 3-4, one finds a discussion which argues that in human cognition, if material coordinates or material properties are […]...
Essence in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Given a certain indebtedness that one finds in both Aquinas and Lonergan toward Aristotle, one best attends to developments in meaning as regards essence […]...
40 Years Since Humanae Vitae: A Metaphysical Distinction
by Dr. David Fleischacker As with men, the organic and psychic life of women possesses an intelligibility that begins with the finality to conceive life. And as in men, […]...
Lonergan and Aquinas: Isomorphism and Proportionality
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB The Thomism of Lonergan’s philosophy and theology is accepted by some and rejected by others. On the one hand, Lonergan says about himself that he […]...