Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity

1. Introduction. Scholastics and Neo-Scholastics. 2. Sources and Authorities for Moral Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Thomas Aquinas and Jean Buridan on Aristotle's Ethics; David Lines. 3. Action, Will and Law in Late Scholasticism; Thomas Pink. 4. Michael Baius (1513-89) and the Debate on 'Pure Nature': Grace and Moral Agency in Sixteenth-Century Scholasticism; M.W.F. Stone. 5. On the Anatomy of Probabilism; Rudolf Schüssler. 6. Casuistry and the Early Modern Paradigm Shift in the Notion of Charity; Sven K. Knebel. Theories of Human Rights and Dominion. 7. Poverty and Power: Franciscans in Later Medieval Political Thought; Roberto Lambertini. 8. The Franciscan Background of Early Modern Rights Discussion: Rights of Property and Subsistence; Virpi Mäkinen. 9. Justification through Being: Conrad Summenhart on Natural Rights; Jussi Varkemaa. 10. Ethics in Luther's Theology: The Three Orders; Risto Saarinen. Reformers and Humanists. 11. The Reason of Acting: Melanchthon's Concept of Practical Philosophy and the Question of the Unity and Consistency of His Philosophy; Günter Frank. 12. Natural Philosophy and Ethics in Melanchthon; Dino Bellucci. 13. Ethics in Early Calvinism; Christoph Strohm. 14. Aristotelianism and Anti-Stoicism in Juan Luis Vives's Conception of the Emotions; Lorenzo Casini. 15. The Humanist as Moral Philosopher: Marc-Antoine Muret's 1585 Edition of Seneca; Jill Kraye. Index of Names.