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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815923303321

Autore

Schuessler Rudolf

Titolo

The debate on probable : opinions in the scholastic tradition / / by Rudolf Schuessler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-39891-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (527 pages)

Collana

Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; volume 302

Disciplina

149/.91

Soggetti

Scholasticism

Probabilism

Public opinion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Medieval Antecedents -- The Road to Probabilism—A New Doctrine on the Use of Opinions -- Probabilism and Anti-Probabilism—Interlocked Lifecycles -- The New Dual Concept of Probability and the Demise of the Endoxon -- Selection Criteria, Common Opinion, and Ordinary Persons -- Stand-Alone Authority and Majorities as Guide to Truth -- Ancient and Modern Opinions—Which to Prefer? -- The Great Debate on Probable Opinions (1656–1700) -- Delimiting the Space of the Reasonable—The Challenge of Probable Probability and Slight Probability -- Believing What We Want—A New Doxastic Voluntarism -- Assessing Probabilism—Between Liberty and Tutelage -- The Scholastic Background of Modern Probability -- Back Matter -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Debate on Probable Opinions in the Scholastic Tradition , Rudolf Schuessler portrays scholastic approaches to a qualified disagreement of opinions. The book outlines how scholastic regulations concerning the use of opinions changed in the early modern era, giving rise to an extensive debate on the moral and epistemological foundations of reasonable disagreements. The debate was fueled by probabilism and anti-probabilism in Catholic moral theology and thus also serves as a gateway to these doctrines. All developments are outlined in historical



context, while special attention is paid to the evolution of scholastic notions of probability and their importance for the emergence of modern probability.