The abuse of casuistry : a history of moral reasoning / Albert R. Jonsen, Stephen Toulmin
- 作者: Jonsen, Albert R.
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- 出版: Berkeley : University of California Press 1988
- 主題: Casuistry. , Reasoning.
- ISBN: 9780520069602 (pbk.) :: US$24.95 、 0520069609 (pbk.)
- 一般註:Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-404) and index
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- 系統號: 005219215 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its subsequent fall into disrepute from the mid-seventeenth century
內容註
Theory and practice -- The roots of casuistry in antiquity -- Cicero: philosopher, orator, legislator -- Christian origins -- The canonists and confessors -- The theologians -- Summists and Jesuits -- Texts, authors, and methods -- Profit: the case of usury -- Perjury: the case of equivocation -- Pride: the case of the insulted gentleman -- Casuistry confounded: Pascal's critique -- After the Provincial letters -- Philosophy and the springs of morality -- The revival of casuistry -- Epilogue: conscience and the claims of equity