Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century /

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century /

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural philosophy blurred the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and made the impossible a preferred territory in discussions on practical reason. The volume studies the onse...

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Other Authors: Lukács, Edit Anna (Editor), Michałowska, Monika (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 22.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Ethics, Medieval > History.

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Call Number: BJ231

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Calculatory Ethics: Methods, Arguments, and Cases. Introduction
  • Monika MichaÅ,owska and Edit A. Lukács
  • 2 Walter Burley on Moral Change
  • Marek Gensler
  • 3 Richard FitzRalph on Contradictory Appetites ( Appetitus Contrarii ): An Unfinished Debate
  • Michael W. Dunne
  • 4 At the Intersections of Physics and Ethics: Richard Kilvington on Ethical Change
  • Monika MichaÅ,owska
  • 5 How Many Actions Does One Need to Generate a Moral Virtue? From the First Lecturae on the Nicomachean Ethics to John Buridan's Quaestiones
  • Valeria Buffon
  • 6 Martyrs Who Do Not Die: Robert Halifax on Supererogation
  • Edit A. Lukács
  • 7 Does Robert Holcot's Theory of Faith Transmission Prefigure Solomon Asch's Conformity Experiment?
  • Pascale Bermon
  • 8 Ethical Implications of a Metaphysical Structure: Peter Ceffons and John Ripa
  • Andrea Nannini
  • 9 The Measurement of Psychological Quality in the Fourteenth Century and Today
  • Simon Kemp
  • Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names
  • Index of Things.