by David Fleischacker As I was thinking about the meaning of a “conjoined union,” the key kind of potency in such a union is […]
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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 […]
At death, are we still persons? Some argue that St. Thomas would say NO.
I heard yesterday of a current debate taking place within Thomist circles about what St. Thomas held regarding the corruption of the human person at death. For […]
Metaphysical Principles, 3rd ed. revised text
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October 19, 2013 Insight Session: Mystery and Myth, immanence and transcendence in the world mediated by meaning
Notes for our Insight Session today. David Fleischacker Finally, we are resuming our Insight seminar, after a break since June 1. In June, we had […]