Marital Ethics – Lonergan Institute

The Cosmological Foundations of Male and Female

Dr. David Fleischacker
January 17, 2021
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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 […]

Lonergan and the Surd of Contraception

Dr. David Fleischacker
November 25, 2018
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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 […]

Gender Ideology, Evolution, and Finality

Dr. David Fleischacker
May 20, 2017
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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

Dr. David Fleischacker
April 21, 2017
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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 […]

Part 8: Love in Finality, Love, and Marriage

Dr. David Fleischacker
July 23, 2015
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by David Fleischacker Further, love is the act of a subject (principium quod), and as such it is the principle of union between different subjects. […]

Part 7: Finality, Final Cause, and the Good in “Finality, Love, and Marriage”

Dr. David Fleischacker
July 19, 2015
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by David Fleischacker “For the final cause is the cuius gratia, and its specific or formal constituent is the good as cause.” (Finality, Love, Marriage, […]

Part 6: Horizontal and Vertical Finality in Marriage, Love, and Finality

Dr. David Fleischacker
July 10, 2015
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By David Fleischacker Four ideas about the generic relationship of horizontal and vertical finality stand out in Lonergan’s 1943 essay – “Finality, Love, and Marriage.” […]