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, […]
Category: David Fleischacker
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 […]
Evangelization, Historically Minded
by Dr. David Fleischacker, Director of the Lonergan Institute Pope Francis has been speaking recently of the need for evangelization, and of course, this is […]
The Cosmological Foundations of Male and Female
Talk given at the Lonergan Institute, December 17, 2017 Dr. David Fleischacker Good evening. Next year is the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae. It has […]
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Lonergan and the Surd of Contraception
David Fleischacker, PhD, December 2008 (written 10 years ago) In 1943, Lonergan had written an essay on marriage, love, and finality.[1] In this essay he […]