Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits
Author : Increase Mather
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1693-01-01
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ISBN : 9781404739819
Author : Increase Mather
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1693-01-01
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ISBN : 9781404739819
Author : Kimberley Brownlee
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 0191645923
The book shows that civil disobedience is generally more defensible than private conscientious objection. Part I explores the morality of conviction and conscience. Each of these concepts informs a distinct argument for civil disobedience. The conviction argument begins with the communicative principle of conscientiousness (CPC). According to the CPC, having a conscientious moral conviction means not just acting consistently with our beliefs and judging ourselves and others by a common moral standard. It also means not seeking to evade the consequences of our beliefs and being willing to communicate them to others. The conviction argument shows that, as a constrained, communicative practice, civil disobedience has a better claim than private objection does to the protections that liberal societies give to conscientious dissent. This view reverses the standard liberal picture which sees private 'conscientious' objection as a modest act of personal belief and civil disobedience as a strategic, undemocratic act whose costs are only sometimes worth bearing. The conscience argument is narrower and shows that genuinely morally responsive civil disobedience honours the best of our moral responsibilities and is protected by a duty-based moral right of conscience. Part II translates the conviction argument and conscience argument into two legal defences. The first is a demands-of-conviction defence. The second is a necessity defence. Both of these defences apply more readily to civil disobedience than to private disobedience. Part II also examines lawful punishment, showing that, even when punishment is justifiable, civil disobedients have a moral right not to be punished. Oxford Legal Philosophy publishes the best new work in philosophically-oriented legal theory. It commissions and solicits monographs in all branches of the subject, including works on philosophical issues in all areas of public and private law, and in the national, transnational, and international realms; studies of the nature of law, legal institutions, and legal reasoning; treatments of problems in political morality as they bear on law; and explorations in the nature and development of legal philosophy itself. The series represents diverse traditions of thought but always with an emphasis on rigour and originality. It sets the standard in contemporary jurisprudence.
Author : William 1576-1633 Ames
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
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ISBN : 9781015348868
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Author : Elliot Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 1975-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521204620
Elliot Rose's aim in this book is to look at the religious troubles of the Elizabethan age from the point of view of those who were not anxious to be martyrs.
Author : Pierce Connelly
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Christian ethics
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Author : Samuel Pike
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382316390
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Increase Mather
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2014-03-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781497881211
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1693 Edition.
Author : Samuel Pike
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 1808
Category : Casuistry
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Author : Samuel Pike
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1762
Category : Casuistry
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Author : Increase Mather
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1693
Category : Witchcraft
ISBN :
Presents the full-text of "Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in Such as Are Accused With That Crime," written by American Congregational clergyman Increase Mather (1639-1723) regarding the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The text is provided by the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia.