Part 3: Statistics in Finality, Love, Marriage
By David Fleischacker Dedicated to Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB on his birthday Lonergan does discuss statistics within this 1943 essay, however, it is clear that he has not developed the […]...
Part 2: Fecundity within Human Process: A few important distinctions and relations, but no big insights.
by David Fleischacker This is the second installment on a series that will give focused attention to statements and sections of Lonergan’s 1943 essay, Finality, Love, and Marriage. The focus […]...
Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal Finality (Z’ to Z”)
by David Fleischacker I have been re-reading “Finality, Love, and Marriage” written by Lonergan in 1943.[1] It is quite an interesting piece once you explore the details and interconnections of […]...
Transubstantiation Explanation
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Economics, Morality of Markets
Morality of Markets How does one go about connecting the idea of morality with markets? The Latin root word moralis means proper behavior of a person in society, literally pertaining […]...
Economics, Introductory notes
Introduction to Economics Lonergan Institute for the “Good Under Construction” April 11, 2015 As the request of Mr. Richard Kral, I have been asked to give an introductory talk about […]...
Insight, Method, and the Trinity
On Holy Saturday morning at 10:30 am, we will be discussing INSIGHT, chapter 14, section 3 (Method in Metaphysics). We will link it to METHOD IN THEOLOGY, chapter 1, section […]...
Robert Spaemann’s Happiness and Benevolence, summary
Understanding what is Catholic Morality Robert Spaemann’s Happiness and Benevolence Chapter 1: Ethics as Teaching How Life Can Turn Out Well As a point of departure for understanding the meaning […]...
Aquinas, Super I Sententiarum (d. 36, q. 2, a. 2 sol) translation Latin to English
Whether there are many ideas in God (Super I Sententiarum, Dist. 36, Quaest. 2, Art. 2) translated by Samuel Pell vis-à-vis Lonergan’s reference to this text in his Verbum: Word […]...
New Seminar: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics
A Study of Catholic Social Doctrine and its Implications for Economic Policy in the United States Initial Meeting scheduled for April 11, 2015 at St Anselm’s Abbey The Lonergan Institute […]...