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Ethics was a central preoccupation of medieval philosophers, and medieval ethical thought is rich, diverse, and inventive. Yet standard histories of ethics often skip quickly over the medievals, and histories of medieval philosophy often fail to do justice to the centrality of ethical concerns in medieval thought. This volume presents the full range of medieval ethics in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy in a way that is accessible to a non-specialist and reveals the liveliness and sophistication of medieval ethical thought. In Part I there is a series of historical chapters presenting developmental and contextual accounts of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish ethics. Part II offers topical chapters on such central themes as happiness, virtue, law, and freedom, as well as on less-studied aspects of medieval ethics such as economic ethics, the ethical dimensions of mysticism, and sin and grace. This will be an important volume for students of ethics and medieval philosophy.
Explores the rich, diverse, and inventive traditions of ethics in the Middle Ages, an area of philosophy that has often been overlooked
Discusses topics and people on their own terms while taking into account the historical context in which ethical thinking developed, as well as making comparisons between the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions
Covers underexplored topics such as economic and mystical ethics as well as central themes like sin, virtue, law, freedom, and happiness
Introduction Thomas Williams
Part I. History:
1. From Augustine to Eriugena Erik Kenyon
2. From Anselm to Albert the Great Ian Wilks
3. From Thomas Aquinas to the 1350s Eric W. Hagedorn
4. Islamic ethics Jon McGinnis
5. Ethics in medieval Jewish philosophy T. M. Rudavsky
Part II. Concepts and Themes:
6. Happiness Jeff Steele
7. Virtue Thomas M. Osborne, Jr
8. Law Jean Porter
9. Freedom without choice: medieval theories of the essence of freedom Tobias Hoffmann
10. Practical reasoning M. V. Dougherty
11. Will and intellect Thomas Williams
12. Emotions Martin Pickavé
13. Medieval Islamic and Christian mysticism and the problem of a 'mystical ethics' Amber Griffioen and Mohammad Sadeg Zahedi
14. Economic ethics Roberto Lambertini
15. Self-interest, self-sacrifice, and the common good John Marenbon
16. Sin and grace Eileen Sweeney.
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Ethics was a central preoccupation of medieval philosophers, and medieval ethical thought is rich, diverse, and inventive. Yet standard histories of ethics often skip quickly over the medievals, and histories of medieval philosophy often fail to do justice to the centrality of ethical concerns in medieval thought. This volume presents the full range of medieval ethics in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy in a way that is accessible to a non-specialist and reveals the liveliness and sophistication of medieval ethical thought. In Part I there is a series of historical chapters presenting developmental and contextual accounts of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish ethics. Part II offers topical chapters on such central themes as happiness, virtue, law, and freedom, as well as on less-studied aspects of medieval ethics such as economic ethics, the ethical dimensions of mysticism, and sin and grace. This will be an important volume for students of ethics and medieval philosophy.
Explores the rich, diverse, and inventive traditions of ethics in the Middle Ages, an area of philosophy that has often been overlooked
Discusses topics and people on their own terms while taking into account the historical context in which ethical thinking developed, as well as making comparisons between the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions
Covers underexplored topics such as economic and mystical ethics as well as central themes like sin, virtue, law, freedom, and happiness
