Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal Finality (Z’ to Z”) Part 2: Fecundity within Human Process: A few important distinctions and […]
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Finality, Love, and Marriage was an essay that Lonergan wrote in 1943 developing a systematic formulation of love and marriage that would theological ground the teachings springing up in Casti Cannubii.
Part 8: Love in Finality, Love, and Marriage
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”
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
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.” […]
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 […]
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, […]