The political morality of the late scholastics : civic life, war and conscience / Daniel Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Daniel, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ethics--Europe--History--To 1500.

Political ethics.

Political science--Philosophy--History--To 1500.

Political science.

Scholasticism.

Political science--Philosophy.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 234 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"The late scholastics, writing in the Baroque and Early Modern periods, discussed a wide variety of moral questions relating to political life in times of both peace and war. Is it ever permissible to bribe voters? Can tax evasion be morally justified? What are the moral duties of artists? Is it acceptable to fight in a war one believes to be unjust? May we surrender innocents to the enemy if it is necessary to save the state? These questions are no less relevant for philosophers and politicians today than they were for late scholastic thinkers. By bringing into play the opinions and arguments of numerous authors, many of them little known or entirely forgotten, this book is the first to provide an in-depth treatment of the dynamic and controversial nature of late scholastic applied moral thinking which demonstrates its richness and diversity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.1. The Late Scholastics

1.2. Moral Theology, Casuistry and Contemporary Applied Philosophy

1.3. Remarks on Method

1.4. Precis of the Chapters

pt. I CIVIC LIFE

1. The Ethics of Electoral Bribing

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Simony as a Moral Constraint to the Use of Money in Elections

1.3. The Distributive Rights of Electoral Candidates

1.4. Aquinas and Soto on Using Money to Redeem Electoral Vexations

1.5. Suarez and the Separability of Intentions

1.6. Suarez's Ungrounded Conclusion

1.7. Following rhe Argument Where It Leads

1.8. Epistemic Constraints

1.9. Summary and Conclusions

2. The Ethics of Tax Evasion

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Purely Penal Law

2.3. Alfonso de Castro on Taxes

2.4. Navarrus and the Gravity of the Obligation to Pay Tax

2.5. Payment on Demand: Justice Through Custom

2.6. The Problem of the Ruler's Consent: Making Sense of Penalties

2.7. The Project in a Wider Perspective

3. Keeping Out the Foreign Poor: The City as a Private Person

3.1. The Poor Law Reforms in Europe

3.2. The Debate Outside Moral Theology

3.3. Medina and His Reception

3.4. Soto's Deliberacion in Outline

3.5. The Controversy That Wasn't

3.6. Incorporating the Poor: The Limits of the Body Metaphor

3.7. Unfairness in the Allocation of Moral Burdens: Soto and Castro

3.8. Summary

4. The Political Duty to Keep Your Secrets

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Personal Opacity as a Social Need

4.3. The Value of Reputation

4.4. The Problem of Self-Defamation Under Torture

4.5. Cajetan on Reputation and Community

4.6. The Property Account of Reputation: Soto and Molina

4.7. Cracks in the Property Account of Reputation: Aragon and Lugo

4.8. Tomas Hurtado and Eminent Domain

4.9. Hurtado: Citizenship and Reputation

4.10. Cosimo Filiarchi and Primitive Inalienability

4.11. Conclusion

5. Scandal and Inexcusable Portraits

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Scandal and Paintings

5.3. Indecent Pictures: What They Do to You

5.4. Decent Portraits for Indecent Ends

5.5. Scandal, Over-Demandingness and Excuses

5.6. Excusing Portraitists

5.7. Frances de Urrutigoyti's Response

5.8. Summary

pt. II WAR

6. Conscientious Objection in War: From Duty to Right

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Adrian's Challenge

6.3. Vitoria on Doubt and Good Faith

6.4. Tutiorist Defences of Obedience

6.5. The Doubtful Soldier: Obliged and Excused

6.6. Probabilist Defences of Obedience

6.7. The Freedom to Disobey

6.8. Domestic War That Is Just on Both Sides

6.9. Two Conceptions of Subject Disobedience

7. Patriotic Collaborationism: Demosthenes and Alexander

7.1. Genesis of the Controversy

7.2. False Leads

7.3. Overview of Leading Views

7.4. The Legal Way Out

7.5. Vazquez de Menchaca's Contractualism

7.6. Why the City Is Not Intentionally Killing the Innocent: Molina, Wiggers and Valencia

7.7. Why the Citizen Is Committing Suicide by Exiting the Besieged Republic: Joao de Sao Tomas

7.8. Taking Stock

8. War and the Boundaries of Punitive Jurisdiction

8.1. Introduction

8.2. The King as Judge

8.3. Breaking the Stalemate

8.4. Duties of Arbitration?

8.5. Vazquez's Revisionist View

8.6. Juan Sanchez and the Possibility of War That Is Just on Both Sides

8.7. Summary

9. Justice After Victory

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Post-Victory Justice: Conceptual Issues

9.3. Killing

9.4. Plundering

9.5. Enslaving and the Problem of the Moriscos

9.6. Summary and Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108492454

1108492452

OCLC:

1057377131