Contexts of Conscience in the Early Modern World 1500-1700
Contributors: Harald Braun (Editor); Edward Vallance (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403915658
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; History & Surveys - General; Conscience; Philosophy; Europe; History of doctrines; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Christianity; Casuistry; History; Religious aspects
First sentence: One of the many challenges facing any friend of the casuistical tradition is to put the early modern doctrine known as 'probabilism' before a contemporary audience and make it not only tractable but worthy of serious attention.