Conscience and casuistry in early modern Europe
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Conscience and casuistry in early modern Europe
（Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.]）
Cambridge University Press , Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1988
- : Fr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
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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