by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB When commenting on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Aquinas repeats what Aristotle says that form (forma) is ratio. Cf. Sententia super Metaphysicam, 8, […]
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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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Liberty and Revelation, Paper by David Fleischacker at LI Symposium: Liberated by God and his Church
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Lonergan on the Unity of Man and the Immortality of the Soul, revised ed.
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Any Philosophy or Science based on Data of Consciousness is Empirical
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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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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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by Dr. David Fleischacker, Director of the Lonergan Institute Pope Francis has been speaking recently of…
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Accidents as a Specification of Internal Relation in Lonergan and Aquinas
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Ryszard Legutko’s The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols
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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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Any Philosophy or Science based on Data of Consciousness is Empirical
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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,…
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Understanding Two Kinds of Emanation within God Through a Transposition of Meaning
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Law of the Cross, homily, Bishop Philip Egan, Diocese of Portsmouth, Sept. 14, 2014
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Ryszard Legutko’s The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols
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Stratford Caldecott’s Beauty for Truth’s Sake, complete notes
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Essence in Aquinas and Lonergan
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Given a certain indebtedness that one finds in both Aquinas and Lonergan toward Aristotle, one best attends to developments […]
Understanding the Proceeding of an Intellectual Emanation in its Uniqueness
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB If intellectual emanation cannot be properly understood in terms of cause and effect, it follows that, if one is to […]
Understanding the Proceeding of an Intellectual Emanation in its Uniqueness Employing a Thomist Distinction
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In attempting to understand the nature of an intellectual emanation as one kind of intellectual act comes from another kind […]
Applying a Thomist Principle: Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Not infrequently, in different texts, Aquinas refers to a principle which he uses as a principle of explanation–a principle which […]
From Human and Angelic Understanding to Divine Understanding in Lonergan and Aquinas
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In the kind of analysis which one finds in Lonergan’s The Triune God: Systematics, much is said about how […]
Being and Good as Primary Notions in Aquinas and Lonergan
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In the order which one finds in Lonergan’s intentionality analysis, moral deliberation succeeds acts of reflective understanding which […]
Speaking about God’s Nature in Aquinas and Lonergan: A Question about Different Starting Points
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In his The Triune God: Systematics, pp. 193-199, in a seeming contrast with Aquinas, Lonergan speaks about God’s attributes […]
Judgment in Aquinas and Lonergan
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB When Lonergan speaks about judgment in terms of affirmation and negation (one affirms, for instance, that something is so or […]
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 about what is meant by a “transposition of meaning,” as Matthew Lamb argues in “Lonergan’s […]