The ethics of discernment : Lonergan's foundation for ethics

The ethics of discernment : Lonergan's foundation for ethics / Patrick H. Byrne.

"In The Ethics of Discernment, Patrick H. Byrne presents an approach to ethics that builds upon the cognitional theory and the philosophical method of self-appropriation that Bernard Lonergan introduced in his book Insight, as well as upon Lonergan's later writing on ethics and values. Ext...

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Main Author: Byrne, Patrick H. (Patrick Hugh), 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Series:Lonergan studies.
Subjects:
Lonergan, Bernard J. F. > Criticism and interpretation.
Lonergan, Bernard J. F.
Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY / General
Ethics
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • part I. Preliminaries
  • 1. Discernment and self-appropriation
  • 2. Objectivity and factual knowing : Lonergan's three questions
  • 3. Self-appropriation, part I : self-affirmation of cognitional structure
  • part II. What are we doing when we are being ethical?
  • 4. The structure of ethical intentionality : three more questions
  • 5. Kinds of feelings
  • 6. Feelings as intentional responses and horizons of feelings
  • 7. Feelings and value reflection
  • part III. Why is doing that being ethical?
  • 8. Horizons of feelings, conversion, and objectivity
  • 9. Judgments of comparative value and the scale of value preference
  • 10. Self-appropriation, part II : why is doing that being ethical?
  • part IV. What is brought about by doing that?
  • 11. The human good described
  • 12. The human good : explanatory foundations
  • 13. The notion and the ontology of the good
  • 14. Explanatory genera and the objective scale of values : a preliminary grounding
  • part V. Method in ethics
  • 15. Method in ethics I : preliminaries
  • 16. Method in ethics II : dialectic and foundations.

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