Eye of the heart : knowing the human good in the euthanasia debate / / William F. Sullivan

• Autore: Sullivan William F. <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005; ©2005
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Disciplina: 179.7
• Soggetto topico: Euthanasia - Moral and ethical aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Debate1 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 Clarifications5 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 Mind1 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 Evaluating3 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "What is the role of feelings in the euthanasia debate? This is the central question William F. Sullivan asks in Eye of the Heart, a unique philosophical and ethical exploration of the euthanasia issue. Employing the principles and techniques of the Canadian theologian and thinker Bernard Lonergan, Sullivan offers a concrete examination of the role of feelings in grasping moral values and the important part that feelings play in ethical decision- making. The heart has its reasons, he argues, which bioethicists, philosophers and legal scholars all need to know."--Jacket
• Titolo autorizzato: Eye of the heart
• ISBN: 1-282-02911-8; 9786612029110; 1-4426-7476-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813481703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lonergan studies.