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11 November 2025 @ 7:00 pm
End Date
11 November 2025 @ 8:15 pm
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Online
Lonergan Australasia 2025 Spring Seminar – November
Lonergan Australasia presents Professor Matthew Ogilvie, University of Notre Dame Australia, on “Lonergan, Finality, Love and Politics”.
This presentation takes inspiration from Bernard Lonergan’s “Finality, Love, Marriage”. It will propose that Lonergan’s explanations of finality and love, applied to friendship and politics, can diagnose the cause of various political problems today and show a better way at the party, national, and international levels. It will draw on the presenter’s experience in politics and his work in the field of terrorism. It will start with Lonergan, and will engage Aristotle’s account of friendship, and also draw upon Australian Aboriginal law concerning close relationships. It will highlight the destructive influence of purely horizontal finality in politics and political relationships, and how this can be overcome with a focus on [a] vertical finality.
Register for this event here.
A short bio of Professor Matthew Ogilvie can be found here, a longer one here.
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11
November
2025
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7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
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“Lonergan, Finality, Love and Politics” – Professor Matthew Ogilvie
“Lonergan, Finality, Love and Politics” – Professor Matthew Ogilvie
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Lonergan Australasia 2025 Spring Seminar – November
Lonergan Australasia presents Professor Matthew Ogilvie, University of Notre Dame Australia, on “Lonergan, Finality, Love and Politics”.
This presentation takes inspiration from Bernard Lonergan’s “Finality, Love, Marriage”. It will propose that Lonergan’s explanations of finality and love, applied to friendship and politics, can diagnose the cause of various political problems today and show a better way at the party, national, and international levels. It will draw on the presenter’s experience in politics and his work in the field of terrorism. It will start with Lonergan, and will engage Aristotle’s account of friendship, and also draw upon Australian Aboriginal law concerning close relationships. It will highlight the destructive influence of purely horizontal finality in politics and political relationships, and how this can be overcome with a focus on [a] vertical finality.
Register for this event here.
A short bio of Professor Matthew Ogilvie can be found here, a longer one here.