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

• VerfasserIn: Schuessler, Rudolf,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 302.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (527 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

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.