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Conscience in Medieval Philosophy - Hardcover

 
9780521232876: Conscience in Medieval Philosophy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521232872 ISBN 13: 9780521232876
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1980

Synopsis

This book presents in translation writings by six medieval philosophers which bear on the subject of conscience. Conscience, which can be considered both as a topic in the philosophy of mind and a topic in ethics, has been unduly neglected in modern philosophy, where a prevailing belief in the autonomy of ethics leaves it no natural place. It was, however, a standard subject for a treatise in medieval philosophy. Three introductory translations here, from Jerome, Augustine and Peter Lombard, present the loci classici on which subsequent discussions drew; there follows the first complete treatise on conscience, by Philip the Chancellor, while the two remaining translations, from Bonaventure and Aquinas, have been chosen as outstanding examples of the two main approaches which crystallised during the thirteenth century.

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Book Description

This book presents in translation writings by six medieval philosophers which bear on the subject of conscience. Conscience has been unduly neglected in modern philosophy, where a prevailing belief in the autonomy of ethics leaves it no natural place. It was, however, a standard subject for a treatise in medieval philosophy.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1980
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521232872
ISBN 13 
9780521232876
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
167
Editor
Potts Timothy C.