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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,…
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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- 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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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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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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Coping with Subjectivism and Relativism
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- March 28, 2026
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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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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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1 by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB For an initial understanding…
Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 1a, q. 84, Notes
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Notes on Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1a, q. 84 ST 1.84:…
Economics, Morality of Markets
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Morality of Markets How does one go about connecting the…
Part 5: Horizontal and Vertical Finality, and a further note on Conjoined Plurality in Finality, Love, and Marriage
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by David Fleischacker Quick note on horizontal and vertical…
Potency: Aristotle, Aquinas, Lonergan
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Potencynotes This paper exists as an excerpt belonging to a…
Evangelization, Historically Minded
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by Dr. David Fleischacker, Director of the Lonergan Institute Pope…
May our dear friend Phyllis Wallbank be welcomed into the feast of Our Lord’s Last Supper!
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Holy Thursday, April 9, 2020 On the Passing of Phyllis…
Greek Discovery of Mind, Socrates, notes
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- June 5, 2016
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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 […]
Manent, The City of Man, Ch. 4, pp. 126-137, Parts 8 – 14
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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 […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, chapter 4, notes
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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 […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, ch. 3, Notes
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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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- February 18, 2016
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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 […]
Pierre Manent’s City of Man, Notes
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