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Nurturing the thought and legacy of Bernard Lonergan, S.J., to promote the transformation of culture both within and beyond the university
Chestnut Hill, MA
Joined February 2011
Reminder!โฃ โฃ The 2020 LaBrecque Medical Ethics Lecture featuring University of San Francisco Philosophy Professor Tom Cavanaugh is on March 10th!โฃ โฃ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ 4:30pm ~ Stokes S195 Free โฃ
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We plan to host Drs. Floyd and Rumpza in the fall for a book launch event at Boston College...stay tuned! Until then, order your copy here: https://t.co/D9VSQ2ekUS
@GFL0 @utpress @BCPhilosophy @BostonCollege
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Congratulations to former Lonergan MA scholars Drs. Greg Floyd and Stephanie Rumpza on the publication of "The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America"!
Check out this volume of essays edited by Greg Floyd and Stephanie Rumpza, PhD '19. https://t.co/VvzcJTpEwi
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So proud of our former Associate Director, Kerry Cronin!
The St. Thomas More Society of BC hosts a talk tonight (2/18) by Prof Kerry Cronin entitled "Save the Date"! Professor Cronin discusses the nature of dating and relationships during college. Devlin Hall 008 7:30pm Prof Cronin gives an amazing talk, so do your best to be there!
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Soon to be added to the Lonergan Institute's collection: ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ: ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข (Pickwick Publications) by Dominic Arcamone, MTh, MA, DMin, PhD. Check it out! https://t.co/aNKw2JqvZG
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Congratulations to recent post-graduate fellow in Lonergan Studies, @maevelouise! Maeve graced us with a performance and discussion of music and the aesthetic and artistic patterns of experience in Lonergan's epistemology and theological method last fall. Thank you, Maeve.
CD FINISHED! So grateful to these amazing people (Addie and Barb) at Songstore. Watch this space for #Strangelife #musicastheology @songstore
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We love to share news of interesting opportunities! The Toronto School of Theology's annual conference will be preceded by a graduate student conference sharing its theme of โValues and Valuing." Scholars inโฆ
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Welcome to our new feature, โWhere are they now?โ From time to time, weโre going to check in with folks who completed masterโs degree scholarships and post-graduate fellowships in Lonergan studies through theโฆ
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Hello again, Twitterverse! ๐ It's been a minute since we've been around these parts, but we're back. ๐ค Stay tuned for random musings about all things Lonergan and updates about the the Institute's events, programs, and people.
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"Philosophy used to be regarded as the handmaid of theology; it happens however that the handmaid has gone in for women's liberation." -BL
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Philosophy is the attempt to illuminate the effort of intelligent, reasonable, free, fully responsible self-constitution.
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Congrats to the organizers, presenters and guest speakers at Marquette's Lonergan on the Edge Conference!
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I'm getting (a new) hip in my old age. Check out my FB page: facebook.com/bclonergan. don't forget to "like"-self-appropriatedly of course!
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set up your categorical imperatives any way you like, but in facing suffering, death, or struggle one needs something more, "transczendenz"
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To change people's philosophies is to change them. It is not simply a matter of true propositions. Conversion involves something of a leap.
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"Objectivity is [still] the fruit of authentic subjectivity."
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"Philosophy is the flowering of the individualโs rational self-consciousness in its coming to know and take possession of itself."
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โMetaphysics is not something in a book, but something in a mindโ
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Hume as intelligent and reasonable is quite different form Hume as he knew himself. This is the existential gap.
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