The Ethics of Discernment

Lonergan's Foundations for Ethics

Patrick H. Byrne (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

528 Seiten

2016
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
9781442632868 (ISBN)

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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.

Patrick H. Byrne is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and director of the Lonergan Institute at Boston College.

Preface Introduction Part I: Preliminaries Chapter 1: Discernment and Self-Appropriation Chapter 2: Objectivity and Factual Knowing: Lonergan's Three Questions Chapter 3: Self-Appropriation, Part I: Self-Affirmation of Cognitional Structure Part II: What Are We Doing When We Are Being Ethical? Chapter 4: The Structure of Ethical Intentionality: Three More Questions Chapter 5: Kinds of Feelings Chapter 6: Feelings as Intentional Responses and Horizons of Feelings Chapter 7: Feelings and Value Reflection Part III: Why is Doing That Being Ethical? Chapter 8: Horizons of Feelings, Conversion, and Objectivity Chapter 9: Judgments of Comparative Value and the Scale of Value Preference Chapter 10: Self-Appropriation, Part II: Why is Doing that Being Ethical? Part IV: What Is Brought About By Doing That? Chapter 11: The Human Good Described Chapter 12: The Human Good: Explanatory Foundations Chapter 13: The Notion and the Ontology of the Good Chapter 14: Explanatory Genera and the Objective Scale of Values: A Preliminary Grounding Part V: Method in Ethics Chapter 15: Method in Ethics I: Preliminaries Chapter 16: Method in Ethics II: Dialectic and Foundations

Erscheinungsdatum	03.03.2016
Reihe/Serie	Lonergan Studies
Zusatzinfo	6
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 241 mm
Gewicht	980 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-13	9781442632868 / 9781442632868
Zustand	Neuware