The Place of the Heart in Lonergan's Ethics The Role of Feelings in the Ethical Intentionality Analysis of Bernard Lonergan

by Doorley, Mark J.

• ISBN13: 9780761803676
• ISBN10: 076180367X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-30
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This century has witnessed a surge in philosophical interest on the issue of feelings and their role in human experience, both intellectual and ethical. One philosopher and theologian for whom feelings gradually became a central facet of his understanding of human ethical intentionality was Bernard Lonergan, S.J. In his text Method in Theology (1971) and later essays Lonergan begins to set out the fruit of the appropriation of his own affective life. However, he made only a beginning. Lonergan left many unanswered questions at his death. It is the incomplete nature of his investigation of the role of feelings in ethical intentionality which prompts this work. This book offers an attempt to complement Lonergan's work by wondering about the meaning behind his brief words about feelings. This explanatory account will reveal the pivotal importance of feelings in the realization of the good.

Table of Contents

DEDICATION	iii	(6)
PREFACE	ix	(1)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xi	(2)
INTRODUCTION	xiii
CHAPTER 1 FEELINGS IN INSIGHT	1	(16)
1.1. Common Sense as Subject and Object	2	(4)
1.2. Genetic Method	6	(3)
1.3. Dialectical Method	9	(1)
1.4. Feelings and Images	10	(4)
1.5. A Summary Statement	14	(3)
CHAPTER 2 A DEVELOPING POSITION	17	(26)
2.1. Max Scheler	17	(11)
2.1.1. Scheler and Kant	18	(1)
2.1.2. Scheler's Typology of Feeling	19	(2)
2.1.3. The Hierarchy of Values	21	(3)
2.1.4. Ordo Amoris	24	(2)
2.1.5. A Critique	26	(2)
2.2 Dietrich von Hildebrand	28	(9)
2.2.1. Value Response	29	(7)
2.2.2. A Critique	36	(1)
2.3. Concluding Remarks	37	(6)
CHAPTER 3 A TYPOLOGY OF FEELINGS	43	(20)
3.1. States and Trends	44	(1)
3.2a. Intentional Responses	45	(7)
3.2a.1. The meaning of "spiritual"	45	(4)
3.2a.2. The notion of sublation	49	(3)
3.2b. Intentional Responses Revisited	52	(11)
CHAPTER 4 TWO CATEGORIES OF INTENTIONAL RESPONSE	63	(10)
4.1. Intentional Resonses to the Subjectively Satisfying	63	(1)
4.2a. Intentional Responses to Value	64	(1)
4.2a.1. A New Notion of Value	65	(4)
4.2b. Intentional Responses to Value Revisited	69	(4)
CHAPTER 5 THE ROLE OF FEELINGS	73	(22)
5.1. The Fourth Level of Consciousness	73	(5)
5.2. The Establishment of a Horizon	78	(6)
5.3. An Apprehension of Value	84	(3)
5.4. A Horizon and a Heuristic	87	(1)
5.5. Three Models of Deliberation	88	(7)
CONCLUSION	95	(10)
EPILOGUE	105	(14)
1. Intellect to "Heart"	105	(6)
2. The Role of Feelings	111	(4)
3. The Centrality of the "Heart"	115	(4)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	119	(10)
INDEX	129