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Rules and ethics : perspectives from anthropology and history /
This book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the world's ethical traditions. A valuable theoretical introduction sets the agenda for a series of comparative studies, spanning pre-modern Hindu ethics, Classical Rome and Christian casuistr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Manchester] :
Manchester University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Rules and ethics / Morgan Clarke, Emily Corran
- Part I: Rules enabling moral life
- Conscience is tradition : classical Hindu law and the ethics of conservatism / Donald R. Davis, Jr.
- Manners and morals : codes of civility in early modern England / Martin Ingram
- Control of the self and the casuistry of vows : Christian personal conscience and clerical intervention in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Emily Corran
- Part II: Rules and virtue
- Rules and the unruly : Roman exemplary ethics / Rebecca Langlands
- For the love of God? : the First Commandment and sacramental confession in early modern Catholic Europe / Nicole Reinhardt
- Counting good and bad deeds under military rule : Islam and divine bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine) / Emanuel Schaeublin
- Part III: Rules about rules
- Tactics of transformation : self-formation and the multiplicity of authority in Polish conversions to Judaism / Jan Lorenz
- Conscience and action in the Islamic madhhab-law tradition / Talal Al-Azem
- Comparing casuistries : rules, rigour and relaxation in Islam and Christianity / Morgan Clarke
- Afterword / James Laidlaw.