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  • Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe

    Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe by Leites, Edmund;

    Series: Ideas in Context; 9;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number New ed
    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 16 May 2002

    • ISBN 9780521520201
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages280 pages
    • Size 229x153x19 mm
    • Weight 457 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    An examination of a fundamental aspect of the intellectual history of early modern Europe.

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    Long description:

    This examination of a fundamental but often neglected aspect of the intellectual history of early modern Europe brings together philosophers, historians and political theorists from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, France and Germany. Despite the diversity of disciplines and national traditions represented, the individual contributions show a remarkable convergence around three themes: changes in the modes of moral education in early modern Europe, the emergence of new relations between conscience and law (particularly the law of the state), and the shared continuities and discontinuities of both Roman Catholic and Protestant moral culture in relation to their medieval past.

    'This collection is a demonstration of the value of the aims and methods advocated by the general editors of the series, 'Ideas in Context'. The examination of casuistry and its reputation, of associated ideas of conscience and of the theory and practice of moral education in the early modern period continually reveals connections between morality as a practical and public concern and more systematic and 'philosophical' ethical theory. The result is immensely stimulating and suggestive (not less so for the disagreements among contributors), and constitutes a challenge to philosophers to join with historians in pursuit of a more serious and professional history of ethics than is yet available.' M. R. Ayers, Wadham College, Oxford

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction Edmund Leites; 1. Governing conduct James Tully; 2. Laxity and liberty in seventeenth-century English political thought Margaret Sampson; 3. Casuistry and character Edmund Leites; 4. Prescription and reality Jean Delumeau; 5. The 'new art of lying': equivocation, mental reservation, and casuistry Johann P. Sommerville; 6. Kant and casuistry H.-D. Kittsteiner; 7. Moral arithmetic: seven sins into ten commandments John Bossy; 8. Optics and sceptics: the philosophical foundations of Hobbes's political thought Richard Tuck; Index.

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