Moral conscience through the ages : fifth century BCE to the present / Richard Sorabji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorabji, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conscience--History.

Conscience.

Conscience--Religious aspects--History of doctrines.

Conscience--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Other Title:

Fifth century BCE to the present

5th century BCE to the present

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Richard Sorabji presents a unique exploration of the development of moral conscience over 2500 years, from the playwrights of classical Greece to the present. His virtuoso study of the development of pagan, Christian, and secular conceptions of conscience culminates in a consideration of the nature, value, and role of conscience today.

Contents:

Introduction, p.1

One: Sharing Knowledge with Oneself of a Defect: Fİve Centuries from the Greek Playwright and Plato to St.Paul and First-Century Pagans, p.11

Two: Christian Appropriation and Platonist Developments, Third to Sixth Centuries CE, p.37

Three: Early Christianity and Freedom of Religion, 200-400 CE, p.47

Four: Doubled Conscience and Dilemmas of Double Bind:A Medival Insight and a Twelfth-Century Misconstrual?, p.59

Five: Petitence for Bad Conscience in Pagans and Christians, First to Thirteenth Centuries, p.73

Six: Protesters and Protestants: ''Terrorization'' of Conscience and Two Senses of ''Freedom'' of Conscience, Fourteenth to sixteenth Centuries, p.97

Seven: Advice on Particular Moral Dilemmas: Casuistry, Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Seventeenth Centuries, p.117

Eight: Freedom of Conscience and the Individual: Seventeenth- Century England and Holland, p.127

Nine: Four Rehabilitations of Conscience and Connection with Sentiment: Eighteenth Century, p.167

Ten: Critics and Champions of Conscience and Its Continuing Resecularization: Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries, p.185

Eleven: Modern Issues about Conscientius Objection and Freedoms of Conscience , religion, and Speech, p.201

Twelve: Retrospect: Nature and Value of Conscience, p.215

Select Bibliography, p.225

Table of main thinkers and writers, p.231

general index, p.237

index locorum, p.259

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 10, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-176570-8