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Author | : Timothy C. Potts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2002-04-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521892704 |
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This book presents in translation writings by six medieval philosophers which bear on the subject of conscience. Conscience, which can be considered both as a topic in the philosophy of mind and a topic in ethics, has been unduly neglected in modern philosophy, where a prevailing belief in the autonomy of ethics leaves it no natural place. It was, however, a standard subject for a treatise in medieval philosophy. Three introductory translations here, from Jerome, Augustine and Peter Lombard, present the loci classici on which subsequent discussions drew; there follows the first complete treatise on conscience, by Philip the Chancellor, while the two remaining translations, from Bonaventure and Aquinas, have been chosen as outstanding examples of the two main approaches which crystallised during the thirteenth century.
Author | : Richard Sorabji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199685547 |
Download Moral Conscience Through the Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Richard Sorabji presents a unique discussion of the development of moral conscience over a period of 2500 years, from the playwrights of the fifth century BCE to the present. He addresses key topics including the original meaning and continuing nature of conscience, the ideas of freedom of religion and conscience with climaxes in the early Christian centuries and the seventeenth, the disputes on absolution or 'terrorisation' of conscience, dilemmas of conscience,and moral double-bind, the reliability of conscience if it is shaped by local custom, and modern opposition to the idea of conscience and its role in legislation.
Author | : M. V. Dougherty |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2011-04-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139501437 |
Download Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of moral dilemma theory often ignores the medieval period, overlooking the sophisticated theorizing by several thinkers who debated the existence of moral dilemmas from 1150 to 1450. In this book Michael V. Dougherty offers a rich and fascinating overview of the debates which were pursued by medieval philosophers, theologians and canon lawyers, illustrating his discussion with a diverse range of examples of the moral dilemmas which they considered. He shows that much of what seems particular to twentieth-century moral theory was well-known long ago - especially the view of some medieval thinkers that some forms of wrongdoing are inescapable, and their emphasis on the principle 'choose the lesser of two evils'. His book will be valuable not only to advanced students and specialists of medieval thought, but also to those interested in the history of ethics.
Author | : Peter Godman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 052151911X |
Download Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and why moral identity could be feigned or falsified were seen as issues of primary importance, and Peter Godman here restores them to the prominence they once occupied in twelfth-century thought. This book is an account of the relationship between ethics and literature in the work of the most famous authors of the Latin Middle Ages. Combining conceptual analysis with close attention to style and form, it offers a major contribution to the history of the medieval conscience.
Author | : Richard Cross |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317486439 |
Download The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts. With their characteristic style of rigorous semantic and logical analysis, they produced a wide variety of diverse theories about a huge number of topics. The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy offers readers an outstanding survey of many of these diverse theories, on a wide array of subjects. Its 35 chapters, all written exclusively for this Companion by leading international scholars, are organized into seven parts: I Language and Logic II Metaphysics III Cosmology and Physics IV Psychology V Cognition VI Ethics and Moral Philosophy VII Political Philosophy In addition to shedding new light on the most well-known philosophical debates and problems of the medieval era, the Companion brings to the fore topics that may not traditionally be associated with scholastic philosophy, but were in fact a veritable part of the tradition. These include chapters covering scholastic theories about propositions, atomism, consciousness, and democracy and representation. The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy is a helpful, comprehensive introduction to the field for undergraduate students and other newcomers as well as a unique and valuable resource for researchers in all areas of philosophy.
Author | : Fabrizio Amerini |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2013-06-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674073460 |
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In contemporary discussions of abortion, both sides argue well-worn positions, particularly concerning the question, When does human life begin? Though often invoked by the Catholic Church for support, Thomas Aquinas in fact held that human life begins after conception, not at the moment of union. But his overall thinking on questions of how humans come into being, and cease to be, is more subtle than either side in this polarized debate imagines. Fabrizio Amerini—an internationally-renowned scholar of medieval philosophy—does justice to Aquinas’ views on these controversial issues. Some pro-life proponents hold that Aquinas’ position is simply due to faulty biological knowledge, and if he knew what we know today about embryology, he would agree that human life begins at conception. Others argue that nothing Aquinas could learn from modern biology would have changed his mind. Amerini follows the twists and turns of Aquinas’ thinking to reach a nuanced and detailed solution in the final chapters that will unsettle familiar assumptions and arguments. Systematically examining all the pertinent texts and placing each in historical context, Amerini provides an accurate reconstruction of Aquinas’ account of the beginning and end of human life and assesses its bioethical implications for today. This major contribution is available to an English-speaking audience through translation by Mark Henninger, himself a noted scholar of medieval philosophy.
Author | : Norman Kretzmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521369336 |
Download The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of philosophy from 1100-1600 concentrating on the Aristotelian tradition in the Latin Christian West. "will long remain the major guide to later medieval philosophy and related topics. Most of the essays are exciting and challenging, some of them truly brilliant." --Speculum
Author | : Daniel Schwartz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108492452 |
Download The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the practical dilemmas, both moral and political, of peace time and war time as discussed by the Late Scholastics.
Author | : Edmund Leites |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2002-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521520201 |
Download Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An examination of a fundamental aspect of the intellectual history of early modern Europe.
Author | : Gyula Klima |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2018-11-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1527522067 |
Download Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contemporary introductions to the theme of self-knowledge too often trace its emergence in the history of philosophy to thinkers such as René Descartes and David Hume. Whereas Descartes conceives of self-knowledge as intimate and first-personal, Hume contends that it is limited to our awareness of our impressions and ideas. In point of fact, self-knowledge is a perennial theme. We may, for instance, trace the lineage of Hume and Descartes on these matters to Aristotle and Plato, respectively. This volume studies philosophical treatments of self-knowledge in the Medieval Latin West. It comprises two sets of papers; the first is taken from an author-meets-critics session on Therese Scarpelli-Cory’s Aquinas on Human Self Knowledge, which advances the thesis that Aquinas’s theory of self-knowledge wherein the intellect grasps itself in its activity bridges the divide between mediated and first-personal self-knowledge. The second set of papers discuss self-knowledge in terms of self-fulfilment. Authors look to Aquinas’s account of how we can know when we have acquired the virtues necessary for human happiness, as well as the medieval traditions of mysticism and theology, which offer accounts of transformative self-knowledge, the fulfilment that this brings to our emotional and physical selves, and the authority to teach and counsel about what this awareness confers.