Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Governing conduct
- 2 Laxity and liberty in seventeenth-century English political thought
- 3 Casuistry and character
- 4 Prescription and reality
- 5 The ‘new art of lying’: equivocation, mental reservation, and casuistry
- 6 Kant and casuistry
- 7 Moral arithmetic: Seven Sins into Ten Commandments
- 8 Optics and sceptics: the philosophical foundations of Hobbes's political thought
- Index
7 - Moral arithmetic: Seven Sins into Ten Commandments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Governing conduct
- 2 Laxity and liberty in seventeenth-century English political thought
- 3 Casuistry and character
- 4 Prescription and reality
- 5 The ‘new art of lying’: equivocation, mental reservation, and casuistry
- 6 Kant and casuistry
- 7 Moral arithmetic: Seven Sins into Ten Commandments
- 8 Optics and sceptics: the philosophical foundations of Hobbes's political thought
- Index
Summary
And God spake all these words, saying,
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness
of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth:
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the
Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate me;
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
keep my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger
that is within thy gates…
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon
the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt…
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- Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe , pp. 214 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988
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