by David Fleischacker About two years ago, I started a new notebook on linking together the University and its life with that of the Holy […]
The Living Cosmopolis
Male and Female: A New Explanatory Paradigm
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- June 4, 2025
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The following essay was preparatory for a lecture given at the Lonergan Institute in Washington,…
Law of the Cross, homily, Bishop Philip Egan, Diocese of Portsmouth, Sept. 14, 2014
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- September 20, 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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- September 18, 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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- July 13, 2026
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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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- July 13, 2026
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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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- July 11, 2026
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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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- June 2, 2026
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Globalization from a Canadian Perspective
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Summarizing Lonergan’s Notion of the Subject
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Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB Consciousness and the Subject summaryDownload
Understanding Lonergan’s Notion of the Subject
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Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB Consciousness and the SubjectDownload
What is Conscience and How Does it Work?
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By Dr. John Young and Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB ConscienceCatholicDownload
Coping with Subjectivism and Relativism
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- March 28, 2026
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Kant and Lonergan by Brother Dunstan Robidoux, O.S.B. jamesDownload
From Cosmological to Transcendental Foundations of Male and Female
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- March 28, 2026
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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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- September 20, 2025
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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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- July 31, 2025
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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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- June 28, 2025
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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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- June 4, 2025
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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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- May 20, 2025
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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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- May 13, 2025
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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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- March 12, 2025
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Series: Finality, Love, Marriage
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- July 13, 2026
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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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- July 11, 2026
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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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- October 16, 2009
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Not infrequently, in different texts,…
The Anonymous Christian
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- June 23, 2008
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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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- August 12, 2008
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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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- September 8, 2009
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1 by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB For an initial understanding…
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:…
Aristotle’s Understanding of Human Cognition (Introduction)
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- October 14, 2018
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Lonergan and Aquinas and Questions about Using a Faculty Psychology
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- December 18, 2008
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by Dunstan Robidoux, OSB In the works of Aquinas and,…
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 8, a challenge to the last blog.
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by David Fleischacker I am hoping now to return to…
Discussion Seminar announcement: Understanding our contemporary political culture
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- February 3, 2015
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Message from David Alexander: We cordially invite you to participate…
Feeding the thirst of Jesus Christ
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- February 4, 2017
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Why does Jesus need or want us to feed him? It would seem that the only appropriate relation to him is to allow him to […]
Requiem Memorial Mass for Paul Joseph Sweeney, Feb. 11, 2 pm
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- January 6, 2017
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On February 11 at 2 pm, Fr. Chris Wyvil OSB will celebrate a memorial Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of our dear […]
New Seminar: reading Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment
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- December 23, 2016
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Message from David Alexander: Our next book selection is Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Stratford Caldecott. I want to suggest everyone procure […]
Pierre Manent’s Beyond Radical Secularism, updated notes
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- December 14, 2016
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Pierre Manent’s Beyond Secular Radicalism Preface Manent begins with a reflection on the political formation of modern France. Many of his reflections apply […]
Knowledge of Christ seminar, message from Sam Pell
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- December 14, 2016
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It was great to meet you all a few weeks ago and discuss St. Thomas Aquinas. We will continue our study this month with a […]
Paul Joseph Sweeney, obituary
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- December 8, 2016
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As published in The Hour: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thehour/obituary.aspx?n=Paul-Joseph-Sweeney&pid=183026409 Paul Joseph Sweeney, 63, died on the evening of December 4, 2016, after a courageous three-year fight against cancer. Born […]
Paul Sweeney, Requiescat in Pace
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- December 6, 2016
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Please know, dear friends, that our friend and fellow reader and student, Paul Sweeney, age 63, has died, last Sunday evening at about 7:30 at […]
Judgment in Aristotle, two natures
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- November 26, 2016
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As a qualification on how we are to understand judgment in Aristotle, please note that, in the kind of analysis which we find in Aristotle […]
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: How does the human intellect know bodies (which are beneath it) ST 1.84.1 Does the […]