Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Governing conduct
- 2 Laxity and liberty in seventeenth-century English political thought
- 3 Casuistry and character
- 4 Prescription and reality
- 5 The ‘new art of lying’: equivocation, mental reservation, and casuistry
- 6 Kant and casuistry
- 7 Moral arithmetic: Seven Sins into Ten Commandments
- 8 Optics and sceptics: the philosophical foundations of Hobbes's political thought
- Index
Notes on contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Governing conduct
- 2 Laxity and liberty in seventeenth-century English political thought
- 3 Casuistry and character
- 4 Prescription and reality
- 5 The ‘new art of lying’: equivocation, mental reservation, and casuistry
- 6 Kant and casuistry
- 7 Moral arithmetic: Seven Sins into Ten Commandments
- 8 Optics and sceptics: the philosophical foundations of Hobbes's political thought
- Index
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- Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988