Eye of the Heart : Knowing the Human Good in the Euthanasia Debate.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (432 pages)
- Lonergan Studies .
- Lonergan Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviated Titles -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 The Euthanasia Debate and the Problem of a Philosophy of Heart: Questions, Context, and Arguments -- 1 The Cognitive Role of Affectivity: Two Focal Questions -- 2 The State and Context of the Two Questions -- 3 The Position I Will Be Defending -- 4 How the Discussion Will Proceed -- 5 Why Lonergan? -- 6 Scope of the Discussion and Its Envisaged Audience -- PART 1: THE RELEVANCE OF EMOTIONS TO THE EUTHANASIA DEBATE -- 2 Affective Elements of Two End-of-Life Stories and the Euthanasia Debate -- 1 Dying in North America at the End of the Twentieth Century -- 2 Sue Rodriguez's Story -- 3 Dennis Kaye's Story -- 4 The Euthanasia Debate: Ethical and Public-Policy Perspectives -- PART 2: HISTORICAL VIEWS ON THE RELEVANCE OF EMOTIONS IN THE MORAL LIFE -- 3 Historical Views on the Relevance and Role of Emotions in the Moral Life -- 1 Overview of Historical Positions -- 2 Some Accounts of Emotions as Irrelevant to Knowing Values -- 3 Some Accounts of Emotions as Relevant to Knowing Values -- 4 Some Terminological Clarifications -- 5 Summary -- PART 3: LONERGAN'S VIEW OF THE ROLE OF AFFECT IN EVALUATIONS -- 4 Lonergan on Cognitional Structure: A Phenomenology of Mind -- 1 An Overview of Lonergan's Account of Human Cognition -- 2 Cognitional Structure: Bringing to Light My Own Knowing -- 3 Cognitional Operations: Activities and Achievements on the First Three Levels -- 4 Re-integrating Lonergan's Theory of Knowledge: From Analysis to Synthesis -- 5 Summary of the First, Second, and Third Cognitional Levels -- 5 Lonergan on Cognitional Objectivity: An Epistemology and Metaphysics of Mind -- 1 Lonergan and the Issue of Cognitional Objectivity -- 2 A Peer Review of a Medical Misjudgment -- 3 Elements of Epistemic Objectivity -- 4 The Principal Notion of Objectivity. 5 Correlative Basic Senses of Objectivity for Lonergan -- 6 Contrasting Lonergan's Notion of Objectivity with Common Medical Uses -- 7 Summary -- 6 Lonergan on the Role of Affect in Evaluations: A Phenomenology of Heart -- 1 Lonergan's Account of the Role of Affect in Human Cognition -- 2 Affective Cognitional Structure: Bringing to Light My Own Medical Evaluating -- 3 A Phenomenology of Fourth-Level Feelings -- 4 Locating Fourth-Level Affective Cognitive Operations -- 5 Evaluating: Fourth-Level Activities and Achievements -- 7 Lonergan on the Objectivity of Evaluations: An Epistemology and Metaphysics of Heart -- 1 Lonergan's Account of the Objectivity of Evaluations -- 2 A Critical Peer Review of a Medical Treatment Decision -- 3 Intentional Affective Responses to Satisfactions or to Values -- 4 Affective Responses to Values according to Some Scale of Preference -- 5 Epistemically Objective Evaluations as the Fruit of Authentic Subjectivity -- 6 Some Ways That Evaluations May Fall Short of Epistemic Objectivity -- 7 The Social Dimension of Moral Development and the Human Good -- 8 Summary -- PART 4: RAMIFICATIONS OF LONERGAN'S STANCE ON EVALUATIONS FOR THE EUTHANASIA DEBATE -- 8 A Critical Assessment of Lonergan's Account of the Role of Affect in Evaluations -- 1 Overview of a Critical Assessment of Lonergan's Core Position -- 2 Lonergan's Philosophical Position on the Role of Affect in Evaluations -- 3 Summary of Lonergan's Philosophical Position as Answers to Six Core Questions -- 4 My Own Critical Affirmation of Lonergan's Philosophical Position -- 5 Difficulties regarding Lonergan's Philosophical Position, and Some Responses -- 9 Ramifications of Lonergan's Position for the Euthanasia Debate -- 1 Introductory Remarks -- 2 Interpreting the Positions of Sue Rodriguez and Dennis Kaye. 3 Comparing and Contrasting the Philosophical and Empirical Positions of Sue Rodriguez and Dennis Kaye -- 4 Comparing and Contrasting the Philosophical and Empirical Positions of Tom Beauchamp and Richard McCormick -- 5 Comparing and Contrasting Philosophical and Empirical Positions of the Minority and Majority Members of the Senate Committee on Euthanasia -- 6 Summary -- 10 Ramifications of Lonergan's Stance on the Eye of the Heart for Philosophy and for the Euthanasia Debate -- 1 An Overview of Personal Ramifications of Lonergan's Stance -- 2 Lonergan's Stance on the Role of Affect in Value Judgments -- 3 My Own Philosophical and Empirical Position on Euthanasia -- 4 My Own Reply to the Empirical Questions regarding Euthanasia -- 5 Ramifications of Lonergan's Philosophy for Myself as a Caregiver -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Figure A.1: Three different accounts of knowing -- Figure A.2: Cognitional structure according to Bernard Lonergan -- Figure A.3: Ethical reflection on euthanasia involves the 'upper blade' of philosophy and the 'lower blade' of empirical stories -- Figure A.4: Particular and general claims, according to Michael Vertin's interpretation of Lonergan -- Table A.1: Comparing and contrasting core philosophical positions: Level of stories -- Table A.2: Comparing and contrasting core philosophical positions: Level of ethics -- Table A.3: Comparing and contrasting core philosophical positions: Level of public policy, Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Canada -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Eye of the Heartproposes that feelings are relevant to knowing moral values and orient us towards moral self-transcendence. The implications of this stance in ethics are drawn out for the euthanasia debate.
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