M. V. Dougherty

Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought

From Gratian to Aquinas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a rich and fascinating overview of medieval debates on moral dilemmas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781107683891
• ISBN-10: 1107683890
• Artikelnr.: 39045282

Autorenporträt

M. V. Dougherty is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Dominican University. He is the editor of Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Gratian and his Glossators on conflicts in the natural law
2. Twenty moral dilemmas from two early 13th-century summaries of theology: William of Auxerre's Summa aurea and the Franciscan Summa Halesiana
3. Raymond Lull and moral ensnarement in the Vita coaetanea
4. Thomas Aquinas, moral dilemmas, and a missing article from Quodlibet XII
5. Thomas Aquinas on failures of practical reasoning: why synderesis doesn't inoculate agents against malformed conscience dilemmas
6. Moral dilemmas in the early Thomistic tradition: Johannes Capreolus and the deceiving demon dilemma
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.