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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 […]
Using Aquinas to Understand Lonergan on the Meaning of Transcendental Laws
Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB In speaking about human cognitive acts and especially about human acts of understanding, instead of speaking about laws of nature […]
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 […]
40 Years After Humanae Vitae: Observations on the Female Procreative Schemes, The Organic Level
by Dr. David Fleischacker As with men, the organic and psychic procreative life of women possesses an intelligibility that begins with the finality to […]
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 […]
Matter as a Cause of Knowing in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In conformity with Aristotle’s understanding of human cognition, Aquinas argues, with respect to human cognition, that “it is as ridiculous […]
Form as a Cause of Knowing in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB When commenting on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Aquinas repeats what Aristotle says that form (forma) is ratio. Cf. Sententia super Metaphysicam, 8, […]