The abuse of casuistry
Subtitle: a history of moral reasoning
By: Albert R. Jonsen, Stephen Toulmin.
Contributors: Toulmin, Stephen Edelston.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Casuistry
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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-404.
Includes indexes.