Intellectual conversion has to do with letting go of belief in the immediate world. It is clarification of what one is doing when one is knowing. It is awareness of one's own conscious processes - experiencing, understanding, and judging. It thus opens one to further development. Moral conversion involves a shift from what merely satisfies to what is truly good and truly valuable.
Moral conversion is the prerequisite for knowing what is truly good and valuable.
One's criterion for decisions has shifted from satisfaction to value. It is the experience of being grasped by ultimate concern. The later affective meaning denotes an openness to repressed, unconscious feelings. Write your additions to the term conversion below. Topics in Education , Volume 10, Collected Words of Bernard Lonergan , Ed.