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The debate on probable opinions in the scholastic tradition /
In The Debate on Probable Opinions in the Scholastic Tradition, Rudolf Schuessler portrays scholastic approaches to a qualified disagreement of opinions. The book outlines how scholastic regulations concerning the use of opinions changed in the early modern era, giving rise to an extensive debate on...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2019.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
volume 302. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Innovations in the Early Modern Era; 2 Plurality and Pluralism; 3 Modern Approaches to the 'Use of Opinions': Social Epistemology, Testimony, and Others; 4 Sources, Genres, and Interpretations; 5 Chapter Preview; Chapter 1 Medieval Antecedents; 1 Medieval Scholastic Attitudes to the Variety of Opinions; 2 Knowledge, Faith/Conviction (fides), and Opinion in the Middle Ages; 3 Probability as Standard for the Acceptability of Opinions; 3.1 The Endoxon and Probable Opinion; 3.2 Both-Sided Probability and Greater or Smaller Probability
- 3.3 Endoxical Probability and Authority4 'Medieval Tutiorism'; 5 A Medieval Pluralism of Opinions; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 2 The Road to Probabilism-A New Doctrine on theUse of Opinions; 1 From the Late Fifteenth to the Late Sixteenth Century; 1.1 Trends on Use of Opinions in Early Modern Scholastic Thought; 1.2 Other Trends with a Possible Impact on Probability and the Use of Opinions; 1.3 Melchor Cano (1509-1560); 2 Probabilism; 2.1 Is Probabilism Irrational or Inconsistent?; 2.2 Uses of Probabilism; 2.3 Epistemological and Moral Justifications of Probabilism; 3 Discussion and Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Probabilism and Anti-Probabilism-Interlocked Lifecycles1 1577-1620: The Rise of Probabilism; 2 1620-1656: Probabilism as Dominant Mainstream; 2.1 The 1640s: First Stirrings of Opposition to Probabilism and Response of Probabilists; 2.2 'Laxism' and Its Critics; 2.3 On the Widening of the Scholastic Pluralism of Opinions; 3 1656-1700: Probabilism Under Fire. The Rise of Anti-Probabilism. Probabilism's Defenses. The Epistemological Debate Unfolds; 3.1 Anti-Probabilism: Key Claims; 3.2 Probabilists Respond: 1656-1678
- 3.3 Probabilism 1656-1678: Sympathy for Modern Science and a Focuson Epistemology3.4 1670-1700: 'Civil War' among the Jesuits; Chapter 4 The New Dual Concept of Probability and the Demise of the Endoxon; 1 The New Dual Concept of Probability; 2 Maryks' Claim of the Jesuit Origins of Dual Probability; 3 Ciceronian Influences?; 4 The Heyday of the (Unrefined) Dual Concept of Probability; 5 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Probability; 6 Leaving Aristotle without Saying Goodbye; 7 Conclusion; Chapter 5 Selection Criteria, Common Opinion, and Ordinary Persons; 1 Selection Criteria for Authors and Opinions
- 1.1 The 'Checklists' of Konrad Summenhart (c. 1450-1502) and Martín de Azpilcueta (1493-1586)1.2 Juan Azor's (1535-1603) List of Scholastic Classics; 2 Sets of Criteria from the Seventeenth Century; 3 Common Opinion; 4 Ordinary Persons and Non-Experts (Illiterati, Idiotae); 4.1 Women; 5 Conclusion; Chapter 6 Stand-Alone Authority and Majorities as Guideto Truth; 1 Aquinas on Following One's Teacher; 2 Stand-Alone Authority in Probabilism; 3 Anti-Probabilism: Opponents of Stand-Alone Authority; 4 Numerical Thresholds of Extrinsic Probability