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"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 Loner...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sullivan, William F., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
Colección:Lonergan studies.
Temas:
Lonergan, Bernard J. F.
Lonergan, Bernard J. F. > (Bernard Joseph Francis), > 1904-1984.
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects.
Emotions.
Philosophy.
Emotions
Euthanasia > ethics
Philosophy
Euthanasie > Aspect moral.
Émotions.
Philosophie.
emotion.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Euthanasie.
Ethische aspecten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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

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