num_pages: 430
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Abuse of Casuistry
titlecomplete: The Abuse of Casuistry
genres: Philosophy, History
ratings_count: 29
publisher: University of California Press