by David Fleischacker About two years ago, I started a new notebook on linking together the University and its life with that of the Holy […]
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Dr. David Fleischacker has his MA in Philosophy from Boston College (1992), MA in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America (1996), and his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America (2004). He currently holds the St. John Henry Newman Chair of Liberal Arts at the University of Mary, Bismarck, North Dakota.
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 […]
Higher Viewpoints: Part Two From Algebra to Calculus: The Emergence of the Power Rule
[This is a reprint of a 1997 posting] Higher Viewpoints: Part Two From Algebra to Calculus:The Emergence of the Power Rule A Thought Experiment […]
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. […]
Square root of two as an irrational number
Square root of two as an irrational number by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB edited by Mr. Michael Hernandez MA When Lonergan discusses inverse insight in […]
Higher Viewpoints: Part One, from arithmetic to algebra, the transition
This is a repost of a 1997 essay written for a seminar on Insight. Higher Viewpoints: Part One From Arithmetic to Algebra: the transition by […]
Part 7: Finality, Final Cause, and the Good in “Finality, Love, and Marriage”
by David Fleischacker “For the final cause is the cuius gratia, and its specific or formal constituent is the good as cause.” (Finality, Love, Marriage, […]
Part 6: Horizontal and Vertical Finality in Marriage, Love, and Finality
By David Fleischacker Four ideas about the generic relationship of horizontal and vertical finality stand out in Lonergan’s 1943 essay – “Finality, Love, and Marriage.” […]
Book Review: Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box
by David Fleischacker I have been enjoying Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box (first published in 1996, with an update in 2006). It brings out a significant […]
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 […]