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