Conscience and casuistry in early modern Europe /

Conscience and casuistry in early modern Europe /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	1st pbk. ed.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description:	ix, 269 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Ideas in context
Subject:	Ethics -- Europe -- History -- 17th century. Ethics -- Europe -- History -- 18th century. Conscience. Casuistry. Casuistry. Conscience. Ethics. Europe. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6375009

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Other authors / contributors:	Leites, Edmund, 1939-
ISBN:	0521520207 9780521520201
Notes:	Originally published: 1988. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Governing conduct
2. Laxity and liberty in seventeenth-century English political thought
3. Casuistry and character
4. Prescription and reality
5. The 'new art of lying': equivocation, mental reservation, and casuistry
6. Kant and casuistry
7. Moral arithmetic: seven sins into ten commandments
8. Optics and sceptics: the philosophical foundations of Hobbes's political thought
Index