This is a repost of a 1997 essay written for a seminar on Insight. Higher Viewpoints: Part One From Arithmetic to Algebra: the transition by David Fleischacker Draft Version 1 […]...

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, 19) This quote” falls within […]...

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.” It is important to note […]...

by David Fleischacker I have been enjoying Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box (first published in 1996, with an update in 2006).  It brings out a significant challenge in thinking through evolution […]...

Infallible Church and the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian (This is a PDF)...

… marriage is more an incorporation of the finality of sex than  of sex itself. (Finality, Love, Marriage, 45) On vacation, so this will be short.  Horizontal finality refers to […]...

by David Fleischacker   Quick note on horizontal and vertical finality I am not going to say much on this today, simply because I am still trying to formulate my […]...

by David Fleischacker   As I was thinking about the meaning of a “conjoined union,” the key kind of potency in such a union is not merely finality, but a […]...

By David Fleischacker   In part two of this series, I mentioned that the “repetitive” element of the physical, vital, and sensitive spontaneity is differentiated into schemes of recurrence based […]...

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