Isbn: 9780521301138 - conscience and casuistry in early modern europe (ideas in context) (4 Ergebnisse)

1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered brown cloth (a little spotted on part of top edge - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. ix + 279 (previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front free endpaper and light pencil marks in margins of some pages).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 288pp hardback, brown boards gilt, (Ideas in Context, Series Number 9).

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. IX, 269 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Bibl.-Signatur und Stempel. Guter Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature on spine. Good condition, some traces of use. n51/50 0521301130 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Zustand: Gut. IX, 269 Seiten / p. sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - This examination of a fundamental but often neglected aspect of the intellectual history of early modern Europe brings together philosophers, historians and political theorists from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, France and Germany. Despite the diversity of disciplines and national traditions represented, the individual contributions show a remarkable convergence around three themes: changes in the modes or moral education in early modern Europe, the emergence of new relations between conscience and law ( particularly the law of the state ) , and the shared continuities and discontinuities of both Roman Catholic and Protestant moral culture in relation to their medieval past. -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction EDMUND LEITES -- Governing conduct JAMES TULLY -- Laxity and liberty in seventeenth-century English political -- thought MARGARET SAMPSON -- Casuistry and character EDMUND LEITES -- Prescription and reality JEAN DELUMEAU -- The 'new art of lying': equivocation, mental reservation, and casuistry JOHANN P. SOMMERVILLE -- Kant and casuistry H.-D. KITTSTEINER -- Moral arithmetic: Seven Sins into Ten Commandments JOHN BOSSY -- Optics and sceptics: the philosophical foundations of Hobbes's political thought RICHARD TUCK -- Index. ISBN 9780521301138 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 563 16,5 x 1,9 x 24,1 cm, Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket. …