Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69648-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Investigating Medieval Philosophy

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural philosophy blurred the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and made the impossible a preferred territory in discussions on practical reason. The volume studies the onset and expansion of a new movement in constructing ethics, as the methods, arguments, and cases adopted from logic and natural philosophy came to be extensively applied at Oxford and swiftly disseminated among other Oxonians eventually making their way outside Oxford. It shows how the Oxford Calculators triggered a unique and durable transformation in ethics.

Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Valeria Buffon, Michael W. Dunne, Marek Gensler, Simon Kemp, Edit A. Lukács, Monika Michalowska, and Andrea Nannini.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lukács, Edit Anna

Michalowska, Monika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Calculatory Ethics: Methods, Arguments, and Cases. Introduction

Monika Michalowska and Edit A. Lukács

2 Walter Burley on Moral Change

Marek Gensler

3 Richard FitzRalph on Contradictory Appetites (Appetitus Contrarii): An Unfinished Debate

Michael W. Dunne

4 At the Intersections of Physics and Ethics: Richard Kilvington on Ethical Change

Monika Michalowska

5 How Many Actions Does One Need to Generate a Moral Virtue? From the First Lecturae on the Nicomachean Ethics to John Buridan’s Quaestiones

Valeria Buffon

6 Martyrs Who Do Not Die: Robert Halifax on Supererogation

Edit A. Lukács

7 Does Robert Holcot’s Theory of Faith Transmission Prefigure Solomon Asch’s Conformity Experiment?

Pascale Bermon

8 Ethical Implications of a Metaphysical Structure: Peter Ceffons and John Ripa

Andrea Nannini

9 The Measurement of Psychological Quality in the Fourteenth Century and Today

Simon Kemp

Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names

Index of Things

Über Autor(innen)

Edit Anna Lukács, Ph.D. (2008), is Academy Scientist at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her most recent book is titled Immovable Truth. Divine Knowledge and the Bible at the University of Vienna (1384-1419) (Brill, 2024).

Monika Michalowska, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor at the Medical University of Lódz. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (Brill, 2016, 2021, 2023).