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Author Byrne, Patrick H. (Patrick Hugh), 1947- author.

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

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Lonergan studies
Lonergan studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
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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Subject Lonergan, Bernard J. F. -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lonergan, Bernard J. F.
Criticism and interpretation.
Ethics.
Ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Byrne, Patrick H. (Patrick Hugh), 1947- Ethics of discernment 9781442632868 (OCoLC)925497592
ISBN 9781442630734 (electronic book)
1442630736 (electronic book)
9781442632868
1442632860