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 […]
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Male and Female: A New Explanatory Paradigm
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Law of the Cross, homily, Bishop Philip Egan, Diocese of Portsmouth, Sept. 14, 2014
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Cosmopolis and the Challenge of Secularism, opening paper, Rt Rev Philip Egan, Bishop of Portsmouth, England, LI symposium: Liberated by God and his Church, Sept 14, 2014
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Liberty and Revelation, Paper by David Fleischacker at LI Symposium: Liberated by God and his Church
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Series: Finality, Love, Marriage
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Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal Finality (Z’ to Z”) Part 2:…
Series: Humanae Vitae
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40 Years since Humanae Vitae: Lonergan, conception, and contraception. Part 1. 40 Years since Humanae Vitae,…
Series: When does the human person begin to exist?
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When does the human person begin to exist? Part 1: To Be Distinct When does the…
What does Lonergan mean by systematic process?
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by David Fleischacker In the introduction of the book Insight: A Study of Human Understanding…
Aristotle’s Categories in St. Augustine
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Globalization from a Canadian Perspective
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Summarizing Lonergan’s Notion of the Subject
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Understanding Lonergan’s Notion of the Subject
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What is Conscience and How Does it Work?
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Coping with Subjectivism and Relativism
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From Cosmological to Transcendental Foundations of Male and Female
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by Dr. David Fleischacker Back in 2017, I put together a talk on male and female…
Any Philosophy or Science based on Data of Consciousness is Empirical
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A few statements 1. First data of consciousness are data. Data is anything to which we…
Ex Nihilo, the Empirical Residue, and Becoming
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by David Fleischacker Think of nothingness. It lacks being. It is not intelligible. It cannot start…
Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary: The Ultimate Finality and Fertility
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The memorial of the immaculate heart of Mary is today. Yesterday was the solemnity of the…
Male and Female: A New Explanatory Paradigm
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The following essay was preparatory for a lecture given at the Lonergan Institute in Washington, D.C.…
Lonergan rejects the dialectic of the “Real” and the “Apparent”
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Lonergan opens his 14th chapter of Insight anticipating some of the "antitheses" against his previous three…
How to be happy in an unhappy world: what is the happiness of Christians? How is the possibility of human happiness related to Christian faith?
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How to be happy in an unhappy world: what is the happiness of Christians? How is the possibility of human happiness related to Christian faith?
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Analytical and Synthetical Reasoning in Aquinas
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Series: Finality, Love, Marriage
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Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal…
Series: Humanae Vitae
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40 Years since Humanae Vitae: Lonergan, conception, and contraception. Part…
Series: When does the human person begin to exist?
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When does the human person begin to exist? Part 1:…
What does Lonergan mean by systematic process?
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by David Fleischacker In the introduction of the book…
Aristotle’s Categories in St. Augustine
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Applying a Thomist Principle: Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Not infrequently, in different texts,…
The Anonymous Christian
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I had been visiting the Lonergan workshop in Boston this…
St. Thomas on why there are only three Persons when there are four mutually opposed relations in the Holy Trinity
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by Dr. David Fleischacker In the first part of the…
Understanding Two Kinds of Emanation within God Through a Transposition of Meaning
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Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 1a, q. 84, Notes
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- November 26, 2016
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Notes on Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1a, q. 84 ST 1.84:…
Part 7: Finality, Final Cause, and the Good in “Finality, Love, and Marriage”
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by David Fleischacker "For the final cause is the cuius…
Judgment in Aristotle, two natures
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As a qualification on how we are to understand judgment…
Metaphysical Principles, 3rd ed. revised text
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Necessity of a New Kind of Thinking?
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Necessity of a New Kind of Thinking? R. Krismer, r.krismer@aon.at…
Lonergan and the Shift to Method
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- June 2, 2017
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by David Fleischacker Method can be looked at as technique. This of course entirely misses the meaning of method as Lonergan conceived of it. […]
Almost 50 Years Since Humanae Vitae: Statistics and Finality in Conception
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- May 26, 2017
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[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
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- 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 […]
Insight into Chemistry: Introduction
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by David Fleischacker In Insight, Lonergan makes use of chemistry as one of the examples of higher and lower genii of things in this universe. […]
Demon in Democracy by R. Legutko, notes
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- May 12, 2017
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Lonergan’s Notion of Truth
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A Descriptive Metaphysics: An Analogy for the Science of Metaphysics
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- April 28, 2017
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By David Fleischacker, PhD First Draft Metaphysics as a science seeks to build a comprehensive and generic viewpoint of the universe that is thus far […]
New Seminar in Political Philosophy, Announcement
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- April 23, 2017
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On May 10, after compline which concludes at about 7:40 pm, a new seminar in Political Philosophy will convene, headed by David Alexander, reading through […]
Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty for Truth’s Sake, complete notes
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- April 22, 2017
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