Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity

• Scholastics and Neo-Scholastics.- Sources and Authorities for Moral Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Thomas Aquinas and Jean Buridan on Aristotle’s Ethics.- Action, Will and Law in Late Scholasticism.- Michael Baius (1513-89) and the Debate on ‘Pure Nature’: Grace and Moral Agency in Sixteenth-Century Scholasticism.- On the Anatomy of Probabilism.- Casuistry and the Early Modern Paradigm Shift in the Notion of Charity.- Theories of Human Rights and Dominion.- Poverty and Power: Franciscans in Later Medieval Political Thought.- The Franciscan Background of Early Modern Rights Discussion: Rights of Property and Subsistence.- Justification through Being: Conrad Summenhart on Natural Rights.- Ethics in Luther’s Theology: The Three Orders.- The Reason of Acting: Melanchthon’s Concept of Practical Philosophy and the Question of the Unity and Consistency of His Philosophy.- Natural Philosophy and Ethics in Melanchthon.- Ethics in Early Calvinism.- Aristotelianism and Anti-Stoicism in Juan Luis Vives’s Conception of the Emotions.- The Humanist as Moral Philosopher: Marc-Antoine Muret’s 1585 Edition of Seneca.

From the reviews: "This is a collection of fifteen essays ... on Early Modern Thought. The editors intend the volume to reflect current, historical and philosophical scholarship about the moral thought of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ... The topic of rights connects these essays ... and they provide a fascinating background to the role of individual rights in modern thought. This is important reading for anyone interested in rights and well worth the acquisition of this volume." (Douglas Langston, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 44 (3), 2006)