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

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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

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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