Moral dilemmas in medieval thought from Gratian to Aquinas

The history of moral dilemma theory often ignores the medieval period, overlooking the sophisticated theorizing by several thinkers who debated the existence of moral dilemmas from 1150 to 1450. In this book Michael V. Dougherty offers a rich and fascinating overview of the debates which were pursue...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dougherty, M. V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Gratian and his glossators on conflicts in the natural law
  • 2. Twenty moral dilemmas from two early thirteenth-century summaries of theology: William of Auxerre's Summa aurea and the Franciscan Summa Halesiana
  • 3. Raymond Lull and moral ensnarement in the Vita coaetanea
  • 4. Thomas Aquinas, moral dilemmas, and a missing article from Quodlibet XII
  • 5. Thomas Aquinas on failures of practical reasoning: why synderesis doesn't inoculate agents against malformed conscience dilemmas
  • 6. Moral dilemmas in the early Thomistic tradition: Johannes Capreolus and the deceiving demon dilemma
  • Conclusion