Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought - From Gratian to Aquinas

Informationen zum Autor M. V. Dougherty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Dominican University. He is the editor of Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Klappentext This book offers a rich and fascinating overview of medieval debates on moral dilemmas. Zusammenfassung This book offers a rich and fascinating overview of medieval debates on moral dilemmas which were pursued by philosophers! theologians and canon lawyers. It will be valuable not only to advanced students and specialists of medieval thought! but also to those interested in the history of ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Gratian and his Glossators on conflicts in the natural law; 2. Twenty moral dilemmas from two early 13th-century summaries of theology: William of Auxerre's Summa aurea and the Franciscan Summa Halesiana; 3. Raymond Lull and moral ensnarement in the Vita coaetanea; 4. Thomas Aquinas, moral dilemmas, and a missing article from Quodlibet XII; 5. Thomas Aquinas on failures of practical reasoning: why synderesis doesn't inoculate agents against malformed conscience dilemmas; 6. Moral dilemmas in the early Thomistic tradition: Johannes Capreolus and the deceiving demon dilemma; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: M V Dougherty, M. V. Dougherty
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9781107007079
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00707-9
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy