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Author : Edmund Leites
Release : 2002-05-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe by : Edmund Leites
Download or read book Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe written by Edmund Leites. This book was released on 2002-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of a fundamental aspect of the intellectual history of early modern Europe.
Author : H. Braun
Release : 2003-12-16
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 by : H. Braun
Download or read book Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 written by H. Braun. This book was released on 2003-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, the conscience stood as a powerful mediator between God and man, directing and judging moral actions. This collection conveys the breadth of the conscience's jurisdiction, analyzing its impact on politics, religion, science, and the understanding of gender and sexuality. It demonstrates how individuals resolved ethical problems in these areas through applying the methods of casuistry, the branch of theology devoted to resolving difficult moral cases. However, casuistry itself was challenged by newer sources of moral guidance.
Author : Meg Lota Brown
Release : 2021-11-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern England by : Meg Lota Brown
Download or read book Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern England written by Meg Lota Brown. This book was released on 2021-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern England examines the responses of John Donne and his contemporaries to post-Reformation debate about authority and interpretation. It argues that the legal and epistemological principles, as well as the narrative practices, of casuistry provided an important resource for those caught in the welter of conflicting laws and religions. The first two chapters explore the political, historical, and theological contexts of casuistry, locating Donne in debates about the limits of reason and the relativity of law and ethics. Chapter three addresses Donne's concern with problems of moral decision and action, of knowledge and definition, in five of his prose works. Chapter four examines ways in which his verse assimilates and wittily subverts casuists' responses to epistemological and linguistic uncertainty. The study is particularly useful for literary critics, intellectual historians, and theologians.
Author : Kenneth Escott Kirk
Release : 1927
Genre : Casuistry
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Book Synopsis Conscience and Its Problems by : Kenneth Escott Kirk
Download or read book Conscience and Its Problems written by Kenneth Escott Kirk. This book was released on 1927. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis R. Klinck
Release : 2016-05-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Conscience, Equity and the Court of Chancery in Early Modern England by : Dennis R. Klinck
Download or read book Conscience, Equity and the Court of Chancery in Early Modern England written by Dennis R. Klinck. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judicial equity developed in England during the medieval period, providing an alternative access to justice for cases that the rigid structures of the common law could not accommodate. Where the common law was constrained by precedent and strict procedural and substantive rules, equity relied on principles of natural justice - or 'conscience' - to decide cases and right wrongs. Overseen by the Lord Chancellor, equity became one of the twin pillars of the English legal system with the Court of Chancery playing an ever greater role in the legal life of the nation. Yet, whilst the Chancery was commonly - and still sometimes is - referred to as a 'court of conscience', there is remarkably little consensus about what this actually means, or indeed whose conscience is under discussion. This study tackles the difficult subject of the place of conscience in the development of English equity during a crucial period of legal history. Addressing the notion of conscience as a juristic principle in the Court of Chancery during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the book explores how the concept was understood and how it figured in legal judgment. Drawing upon both legal and broader cultural materials, it explains how that understanding differed from modern notions and how it might have been more consistent with criteria we commonly associate with objective legal judgement than the modern, more 'subjective', concept of conscience. The study culminates with an examination of the chancellorship of Lord Nottingham (1673-82), who, because of his efforts to transform equity from a jurisdiction associated with discretion into one based on rules, is conventionally regarded as the father of modern, 'systematic' equity. From a broader perspective, this study can be seen as a contribution to the enduring discussion of the relationship between 'formal' accounts of law, which see it as systems of rules, and less formal accounts, which try to make room for intuitive moral or prudential reasoning.
