Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 356 pages)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781350006782
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9781350006768
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9781350006775
Content:
"Casuistry, the practice of resolving moral problems by applying a logical framework, has had a much larger historical presence before and since it was given a name in the Renaissance. The contributors to this volume examine a series of case studies to explain how different cultures and religions, past and present, have wrestled with morality's exceptions and margins and the norms with which they break. For example, to what extent have the Islamic and Judaic traditions allowed smoking tobacco or gambling? How did the Spanish colonization of America generate formal justifications for what it claimed? Where were the lines of transgression around food, money-lending, and sex in Ancient Greece and Rome? How have different systems dealt with suicide? Casuistry lives at the heart of such questions, in the tension between norms and exceptions, between what seems forbidden but is not. A Historical Approach to Casuistry does not only examine this tension, but re-frames casuistry as a global phenomenon that has informed ethical and religious traditions for millennia, and that continues to influence our lives today."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
Part 1. Casuistry and medicine across time and space -- Part 2. Religious anomalies in the ancient and medieval world -- Part 3. Legal casuistry between Judaism and Islam -- Part 4. Casuistry between reformation and counter-reformation -- Part 5. Norms and exceptions in the early modern global world (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) -- Part 6. Inside and outside Port-Royal.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350006751
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A historical approach to casuistry London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781350006751
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Kasuistik
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Vergleich
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Kasuistik
;
Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.5040/9781350006782
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350006782
Author information:
Ginzburg, Carlo 1939-
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