by David Fleischacker Quick note on horizontal and vertical finality I am not going to say much on this today, simply because I am […]
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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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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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[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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Evangelization, Historically Minded
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by Dr. David Fleischacker, Director of the Lonergan Institute Pope Francis has been speaking recently of…
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Aristotle’s Categories in St. Augustine
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Not infrequently, in different texts,…
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Understanding Two Kinds of Emanation within God Through a Transposition of Meaning
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I had been visiting the Lonergan workshop in Boston this…
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Aquinas’s Distinction between Natural Being and Intentional Being
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In Aristotle, De Anima, 3,…
Perfection in Suffering on the Cross: A Transcendental-Metaphysical Analysis
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Notes for our Insight Session today. David Fleischacker Finally, we…
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Part 4a: “Conjoined Union” in Finality, Love, and Marriage
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by David Fleischacker As I was thinking about the meaning of a “conjoined union,” the key kind of potency in such a union is […]
Part 4: Statistics and Finality in Finality, Love, and Marriage
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By David Fleischacker In part two of this series, I mentioned that the “repetitive” element of the physical, vital, and sensitive spontaneity is differentiated […]
Part 3: Statistics in Finality, Love, Marriage
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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 […]
Part 2: Fecundity within Human Process: A few important distinctions and relations, but no big insights.
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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, […]
Part 1: Finality, Love, and Marriage: Gender, Fecundity, and Horizontal Finality (Z’ to Z”)
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]