Conscience and the Law in Thomas More

Brian Cummings

doi:10.1002/9781444396805.ch2

Conscience and the Law in Thomas More

Brian Cummings^*

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English and Related Literature

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Renaissance Conscience
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	29-51
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Print)	9781444335668
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396805.ch2
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2011

Keywords

Assumption of Morean scholars - More's view of conscience, different from autonomy of self
Classic problem - what I know and what I know that I know, between what I think and what I think that I think, what I 'really' think
Conscience and the law in Thomas More - ideal of personal conscience
Doctor and Student, a paradoxical work - being radical in its day
Harpsfield's Life, and More's - meanings in exile, and counter-Reformation triumph
Historians, understanding More's insistence - trial, principle of truth, truth of the church
Icon of private rights against public good - conscience against the letter of the law
More's understanding of conscience - orthodox and conservative
More, believing in medieval social belief - conscience, watchword of moral life
Precise analytic tool of synderesis - More, wrestling with politics of Cromwell's reforms

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