The following essay was preparatory for a lecture given at the Lonergan Institute in Washington, D.C. on December 9, 2023.
Category: The Gift of Life
Thoughts on Eve
[Original published on another site May 11, 2019] by David Fleischacker Have you ever noticed what and when Eve in the book of Genesis says […]
When Does the Human Being Begin to Exist? Special Question 1: Is There a Valid Argument to Say that Human Life Begins at Implantation?
By Dr. David Fleischacker [This springs from a series of blogs titled “When does the human being begin to exist?” which I had written starting […]
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 […]
Perfection in Suffering on the Cross: A Transcendental-Metaphysical Analysis
[If you had seen this piece during the first hour it was posted, I apologize for the confusion. I dictate these blogs into a program, […]
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.” […]