Reflections on feeling and knowing
Category: Cognitive Theory
Aquinas on Memory and Consciousness in Augustine and the First Procession in the Trinity
Aquinas on Memory and Consciousness in Augustine
Material is not the visible, Spiritual is not the invisible.
by David Fleischacker There is a simple yet important distinction made by Lonergan regarding the meaning of the material and the spiritual. I remember in […]
Material is not the visible, Spiritual is not the invisible.
by David Fleischacker There is a simple yet important distinction made by Lonergan regarding the meaning of the material and the spiritual. I remember in […]
Joseph Fitzpatrick: Structure of Cognition
An introduction to Lonergan's understanding of human cognition A paper later incorporated into the first chapter of Dr. Fitzpatrick's book, Philosophical Encounters: Lonergan and the […]
Two Rival Notions of Being: Rosmini, Heidegger, Rahner, and Lonergan rev. ed.
In the theology of Antonio Rosmini (d. 1855), one finds an understanding about human cognition where human beings work from an initial, ideal, indeterminate […]
Identity in Human Cognition
It is no easy task to try to understand the principle of identity in human cognition. In order to do so, I would like to […]
Moving through Conceptuality with Acts of Understanding: Augustine, Aquinas, Lonergan
To understand a bit better what could be meant by saying that acts of understanding, by their very nature, always transcend material variables and […]
Lonergan’s Notions of Consciousness Derived from St. Augustine’s Notions of Presence
In the De Trinitate, 10, 3, 12, St. Augustine distinguishes between two kinds of presence (which have been interpreted as two kinds of object). A […]
Aquinas’s Distinction between Natural Being and Intentional Being
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In Aristotle, De Anima, 3, 4, 430a 3-4, one finds a discussion which argues that in human cognition, if material […]