Category: The Gift of Life

By David Fleischacker   In part two of this series, I mentioned that the “repetitive” element of the physical, vital, and sensitive spontaneity is differentiated into schemes of recurrence based […]...

By David Fleischacker Dedicated to Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB on his birthday Lonergan does discuss statistics within this 1943 essay, however, it is clear that he has not developed the […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...

  by Dr. David Fleischacker As with men, the organic and psychic procreative life of women possesses an intelligibility that begins with the finality to conceive life.  And as in men, […]...

by Dr. David Fleischacker Only adult stem cells work in adult tissues. Embryonic stem cells work in embryos, not mature organisms. The Term “Stem Cell” Unfortunately, the technical language that […]...

by David Fleischacker In this entry, I will end up repeating some of the same conclusions as in the last two blogs, however, with a slightly different focus, and a […]...

by David Fleischacker I am hoping now to return to this line of thought again, after a bit of a delay because of a busy semester and a paper and […]...

By David Fleischacker In the last blog, I had mentioned the final steps in reaching a conclusion. Ignore that, at least in part. In this current installment, I have chosen […]...

by Dr. David Fleischacker In the former 5 parts of our inquiry, we had explored the meaning of the Thomistic definition of person as a “distinct subsistent in an intellectual […]...