The Ethics of Discernment

Lonergan's Foundations for Ethics

Patrick H. Byrne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

526 Seiten

2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
9781487522230 (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	31.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Lonergan Studies
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	820 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-13	9781487522230 / 9781487522230
Zustand	Neuware