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Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity
. Ed(S): Kraye, Jill; Saarinen, Risto
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Description for Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity
Hardback. Investigates the paradigm changes which occurred in ethics during the early modern era, 1350-1600. This collection provides research on ethics in the context of Late Scholasticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation. It also traces the fate of Aristotelianism and of Stoicism. Editor(s): Kraye, Jill; Saarinen, Risto. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 669.
Over the past twenty years the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era has received increasing attention from experts in the history of philosophy. In part, this new interest arises from claims, made in literature aimed at a less specialist readership, that this transition was responsible for the subsequent philosophical and theological problems of the Enlightenment. Philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre and theologians like John Milbank display a certain nostalgia for the medieval synthesis of Thomas Aquinas and, consequently, evaluate the period from 1300 to 1700 in rather negative terms. Other historians of philosophy writing for the ... Read more
Over the past twenty years the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era has received increasing attention from experts in the history of philosophy. In part, this new interest arises from claims, made in literature aimed at a less specialist readership, that this transition was responsible for the subsequent philosophical and theological problems of the Enlightenment. Philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre and theologians like John Milbank display a certain nostalgia for the medieval synthesis of Thomas Aquinas and, consequently, evaluate the period from 1300 to 1700 in rather negative terms. Other historians of philosophy writing for the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
The New Synthese Historical Library
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402030000
SKU
V9781402030000
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Reviews for Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity
From the reviews: "This is a collection of fifteen essays ... on Early Modern Thought. The editors intend the volume to reflect current, historical and philosophical scholarship about the moral thought of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. … The topic of rights connects these essays … and they provide a fascinating background to the role ... Read more