by David Fleischacker Quick note on horizontal and vertical finality I am not going to say much on this today, simply because I am […]
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Part 4a: “Conjoined Union” in Finality, Love, and Marriage
by David Fleischacker As I was thinking about the meaning of a “conjoined union,” the key kind of potency in such a union is […]
Part 4: Statistics and Finality in Finality, Love, and Marriage
By David Fleischacker In part two of this series, I mentioned that the “repetitive” element of the physical, vital, and sensitive spontaneity is differentiated […]
Part 3: Statistics in Finality, Love, Marriage
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 […]
Part 2: Fecundity within Human Process: A few important distinctions and relations, but no big insights.
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, […]
Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal Finality (Z’ to Z”)
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 […]
Insight, Method, and the Trinity
On Holy Saturday morning at 10:30 am, we will be discussing INSIGHT, chapter 14, section 3 (Method in Metaphysics). We will link it to METHOD […]
Commentary: Ft. 28 Ch. 1 Lonergan’s Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas
Footnote 28 in Lonergan’s Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas The full text of this footnote in Bernard Lonergan’s Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas […]
Inner Words as Objects of Thought (without footnotes)
Some Notes on the Inner Word as an Object of Thought by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In a review of arguments that Lonergan marshals, Lonergan […]