To pursue the four fold dimensions of authenticity is a fourth level activity of conscious intentionality. Thus, all operations of conscious intentionality that are authentic are fourth level operations. In this way, there is a type of reduplication of the operations of conscious intentionality on the fourth level. Or, perhaps more correctly, authentic operations of conscious intentionality are operations of the fourth level. Therefore, the reduplication argument leads to a new developed pedagogical understanding of the fourth level as the comprehensive level of all authentic conscious and intentional operations.
All authentic operations are already operations of the fourth level.
To speak of the prior three levels as distinct from the fourth level is an abstraction that explains the process of knowing, valuing, and doing. But once that explanation is made, one can understand these operations as always already operations of the fourth level. Please write me Peter Monette Top of Page Peter Monette. The Lonergan Web Site. March 20, 1998.