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 […]
Category: Emergent Probability
Indeterminacy as Premotion or Indeterminacy and its Explanation in terms of Premotion
Indeterminacy as Premotion or Indeterminacy and its Explanation in terms of PremotionLonergan Institute for the “Good Under Construction” © 2020To explain to a greater degree […]
Lonergan and the Shift to Method
by David Fleischacker Method can be looked at as technique. This of course entirely misses the meaning of method as Lonergan conceived of it. […]
Almost 50 Years Since Humanae Vitae: Statistics and Finality in Conception
[this was a piece drafted in 2008 when I had been publishing a series on Humanae Vitae. I had not published this one yet–and now […]
Gender Ideology, Evolution, and Finality
I just returned from a fantastic conference on gender ideology in Denver. I use ideology in the Voegelinian sense, as a deformation of the metaxy […]
The Motherly Impulse
by David Fleischacker Generally, one thinks of nurturing when one thinks of motherhood. Usually I find a guttural revolt against this idea today. Yet intrinsically […]
Book Review: Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box
by David Fleischacker I have been enjoying Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box (first published in 1996, with an update in 2006). It brings out a significant […]
Part 5a: Horizontal Finality, a note
… marriage is more an incorporation of the finality of sex than of sex itself. (Finality, Love, Marriage, 45) On vacation, so this will be […]
Part 5: Horizontal and Vertical Finality, and a further note on Conjoined Plurality in Finality, Love, and Marriage
by David Fleischacker Quick note on horizontal and vertical finality I am not going to say much on this today, simply because I am […]
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 […]