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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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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…
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A few statements 1. First data of consciousness are data. Data is anything to which we…
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by David Fleischacker Think of nothingness. It lacks being. It is not intelligible. It cannot start…
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The memorial of the immaculate heart of Mary is today. Yesterday was the solemnity of the…
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Lonergan opens his 14th chapter of Insight anticipating some of the "antitheses" against his previous three…
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Analytical and Synthetical Reasoning in Aquinas
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[Original published on another site May 11, 2019] by David Fleischacker Have you ever noticed what…
The Recasting of the Professio fidei and a Question which asks about Church teachings that are presented as definitive
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by Dr. David Fleischacker, Director of the Lonergan Institute Pope Francis has been speaking recently of…
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Accidents as a Specification of Internal Relation in Lonergan and Aquinas
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Divine Understanding as Willing in Aquinas
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Analytical and Synthetical Reasoning in Aquinas
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A few statements 1. First data of consciousness are data.…
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Finality, Love, Marriage: Tensions and Contradictions in Love, Part 9
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by David Fleischacker, Ph.D. I have decided to return to…
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New Manent Seminar: Beyond Radical Secularism
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Message from David Alexander: I would like to propose that we read Beyond Radical Secularism by Pierre Manent and do so on the following schedule: […]
Greek Discovery of Mind, Socrates, notes
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Socrates The intrusion of the systematic exigence into the realm of common sense is beautifully illustrated by Plato’s early dialogues. Socrates would ask for the […]
Manent, The City of Man, Ch. 4, pp. 137-155, Parts 15-23
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15 Locke does not deny that man has an essence or a substance but claims, in fact, that it is unknowable. Man’s being is […]
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8 John Locke agrees that man is different from the animals, distinguished by his power of abstracting. It is only that we do not know […]
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Notes on Manent’s The City of Man, Chapter IV: The Hidden Man 1 Manent has described thus far the three major spheres in modern man’s […]
Greek Discovery of Mind, the Sophists, notes
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Philosophies of Man The Sophists were the next group of philosophers although they were not really philosophers as such since they are better described as […]
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Notes on Manent’s The City of Man, Chapter III, “The Economic System” by David Alexander 1 Where Montesquieu cautiously established the English experience as a […]
Greek Discovery of Mind, Parmenides and Zeno, revised notes, 2nd ed.
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Notes on Parmenides and Zeno Lonergan Institute for the “Good Under Construction” © 2016 Where Heraclitus emphasized process, Parmenides denied both multiplicity and motion. Though […]
Pierre Manent, City of Man, chapter 2, notes
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Notes on Chapter 2 of Manent’s The City of Man “All literature, all philosophy, all history abounds with incentives to noble action, incentives which would […]