The Ethics of Discernment : : Lonergan's Foundations for Ethics / / Patrick H. Byrne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Byrne, Patrick H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Lonergan Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations

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.Extending Lonergan’s method into the realm of ethics, Byrne argues that we can use self-appropriation to come to objective judgements of value. The Ethics of Discernment is an introspective analysis of that process, in which sustained ethical inquiry and attentiveness to feelings as “intentions of value” leads to a rich conception of the good.Written both for those with an interest in Lonergan’s philosophy and for those interested in theories of ethics who have only a limited knowledge of Lonergan’s work, Byrne’s book is the first detailed exposition of an ethical theory based on Lonergan’s philosophical method.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Notes -- Index