Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Sources and Authorities for Moral Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Thomas Aquinas and Jean Buridan on Aristotle’s Ethics

Chapter 3 Action, Will and Law in Late Scholasticism

Chapter 4 Retracted Chapter: Michael Baius (1513–89) and the Debate on ‘Pure Nature’: Grace and Moral Agency in Sixteenth-Century Scholasticism

Chapter 5 On the Anatomy of Probabilism

Chapter 6 Casuistry and the Early Modern Paradigm Shift in the Notion of Charity

Chapter 7 Poverty and Power: Franciscans in Later Medieval Political Thought

Chapter 8 The Franciscan Background of Early Modern Rights Discussion: Rights of Property and Subsistence

Chapter 9 Justification through Being: Conrad Summenhart on Natural Rights

Chapter 10 Ethics in Luther’s Theology: The Three Orders

Chapter 11 The Reason of Acting: Melanchthon’s Concept of Practical Philosophy and the Question of the Unity and Consistency of His Philosophy

Chapter 12 Natural Philosophy and Ethics in Melanchthon

Chapter 13 Ethics in Early Calvinism

Chapter 14 Aristotelianism and Anti-Stoicism in Juan Luis Vives’s Conception of the Emotions

Chapter 15 The Humanist as Moral Philosopher: Marc-Antoine Muret’s 1585 Edition of Seneca

Chapter 16 Retraction Note to: Michael Baius (1513–89) and the Debate on ‘Pure Nature’: Grace and Moral Agency in Sixteenth-Century Scholasticism