In The Ethics of Discernment, Patrick H. Byrne presents an approach to ethics that builds upon the cognitional theory and the philosophical method of self-appropriation that Bernard Lonergan introduced in his book Insight, as well as upon Lonergan’s later writing on ethics and values.

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Preliminaries
Chapter 1: Discernment and Self-Appropriation
Chapter 2: Objectivity and Factual Knowing: Lonergan’s Three Questions
Chapter 3: Self-Appropriation, Part I: Self-Affirmation of Cognitional Structure

Part II: What Are We Doing When We Are Being Ethical?
Chapter 4: The Structure of Ethical Intentionality: Three More Questions
Chapter 5: Kinds of Feelings
Chapter 6: Feelings as Intentional Responses and Horizons of Feelings
Chapter 7: Feelings and Value Reflection

Part III: Why is Doing That Being Ethical?
Chapter 8: Horizons of Feelings, Conversion, and Objectivity
Chapter 9: Judgments of Comparative Value and the Scale of Value Preference
Chapter 10: Self-Appropriation, Part II: Why is Doing that Being Ethical?

Part IV: What Is Brought About By Doing That?
Chapter 11: The Human Good Described
Chapter 12: The Human Good: Explanatory Foundations
Chapter 13: The Notion and the Ontology of the Good
Chapter 14: Explanatory Genera and the Objective Scale of Values: A Preliminary Grounding

Part V: Method in Ethics
Chapter 15: Method in Ethics I: Preliminaries
Chapter 16: Method in Ethics II: Dialectic and Foundations