The following essay was preparatory for a lecture given at the Lonergan Institute in Washington, D.C. on December 9, 2023.
Category: David Fleischacker
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 […]
Relating Description and Explanation: The Case of Gregor Mendel
by David Fleischacker Description and Explanation: Mendel’s Pea Plants One good illustration of the dynamic relationship between description and explanation is found in Mendel’s breakthrough […]
Questions about the Relationship of Description and Explanation.
by David Fleischacker One of the areas that I have found to need further articulation in Lonergan’s writings is that of the scope and the […]
Light and Transcendence
If you glance through the liturgy of the hours and the divine office, you will notice the frequency that the word light is used. Of […]