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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 February 2019
      21 February 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108591522
      9781108492454
      9781108716697
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591522
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 244 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 250 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    The Late Scholastics, writing in Europe 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.

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