The Abuse Of Casuistry - A History of Moral Reasoning

Albert R. Jonsen, Stephen Toulmin

University of California Press

1992

429 páginas

14h 18m

ISBN-13: 9780520060630

In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its subsequent fall into disrepute from the mid-seventeenth century.