by David Fleischacker I am hoping now to return to this line of thought again, after a bit of a delay because of a busy […]
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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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Liberty and Revelation, Paper by David Fleischacker at LI Symposium: Liberated by God and his Church
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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…
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…
Ex Nihilo, the Empirical Residue, and Becoming
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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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The memorial of the immaculate heart of Mary is today. Yesterday was the solemnity of the…
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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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Analytical and Synthetical Reasoning in Aquinas
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Thoughts on Eve
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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…
Metaphor of the Judge in the “Critique of Pure Reason”: A Key for Understanding the Kantian Theory of Knowledge
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Accidents as a Specification of Internal Relation in Lonergan and Aquinas
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Divine Understanding as Willing in 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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Analytical and Synthetical Reasoning in Aquinas
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Coping with Subjectivism and Relativism
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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…
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.…
Applying a Thomist Principle: Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Not infrequently, in different texts,…
Understanding Two Kinds of Emanation within God Through a Transposition of Meaning
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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…
The Anonymous Christian
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I had been visiting the Lonergan workshop in Boston this…
The Cosmological Foundations of Male and Female
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Talk given at the Lonergan Institute, December 17, 2017 Dr.…
Notes on Eric Voegelin’s The World of the Polis
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See a summary of what Eric Voegelin has to say…
Ryszard Legutko’s Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, notes complete
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E. F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful: Chapter 12
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Practical or Moral Knowing about Ends and Means in Aquinas
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Square root of two as an irrational number
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Square root of two as an irrational number by Br.…
When does the Human Person Begin to Exist? Part 7. The Human Person: As Body and Mind
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By David Fleischacker In the last blog, I had mentioned the final steps in reaching a conclusion. Ignore that, at least in part. In this […]
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 6: The human person as developing
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by Dr. David Fleischacker In the former 5 parts of our inquiry, we had explored the meaning of the Thomistic definition of person as a […]
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 5: “In an Intellectual Nature”
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By David Fleischacker “In an Intellectual Nature” As we move toward the final installment that will complete the current inquiry that began over a month […]
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 4 The basis of the unity-identity-whole in an explanatory viewpoint.
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by David Fleischacker In the last installment on January 11th, a question was posed at the end. “The question then becomes more precisely what is […]
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 3: The reality of the concrete unity-identity-whole.
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By David Fleischacker In part 2, I began to examine the notion of the “subsistent” and noted that one key element in a subsistent is […]
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 2: To be a subsistent, or not to be.
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By David Fleischacker Last week, in the search for the answer to this factual question about when a human person begins to exist, I had […]
Knowing and Willing in Aquinas
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By Dunstan Robidoux, OSB In the common literature which exists about Aquinas, he is frequently described as an “intellectualist.” His philosophy (or theology) is frequently […]
When does the human person begin to exist? Part 1: To Be Distinct
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By David Fleischacker In answering the factual question “When does the human person begin to exist?”, a first step is to examine what is meant […]
Infusion of the human soul?
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By David Fleischacker Here is an interesting point think about. Lonergan writes in INSIGHT, that the human mind and will are intrinsically independent of the […]