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Any Philosophy or Science based on Data of Consciousness is Empirical
A few statements 1. First data of consciousness are data. Data is anything to which we can wonder about, explore, get insights, define those insights, […]
Ex Nihilo, the Empirical Residue, and Becoming
by David Fleischacker Think of nothingness. It lacks being. It is not intelligible. It cannot start or stop anything. It has no dimension and can […]
Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary: The Ultimate Finality and Fertility
The memorial of the immaculate heart of Mary is today. Yesterday was the solemnity of the sacred heart of Jesus. As the priest reminded us, […]
Male and Female: A New Explanatory Paradigm
The following essay was preparatory for a lecture given at the Lonergan Institute in Washington, D.C. on December 9, 2023.
Lonergan rejects the dialectic of the “Real” and the “Apparent”
Lonergan opens his 14th chapter of Insight anticipating some of the “antitheses” against his previous three chapters on objectivity and being. In those three chapters, […]
Thoughts on Eve
[Original published on another site May 11, 2019] by David Fleischacker Have you ever noticed what and when Eve in the book of Genesis says […]