Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe

Klappentext An examination of a fundamental aspect of the intellectual history of early modern Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Edmund Leites
• Assisted by: Lorraine Daston (Editor), Edmund Leites (Editor), Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2002
• EAN: 9780521520201
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52020-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education