Augustine's Moral Thermometer of Human Goodness
H. presented the result of his research into Augustine's development of a mathematical ethics for the formal construction of a moral thermometer to measure human goodness and human evil ordinally, i.e., by way of matrices of logical disjunctions of possibilities (matrix logic) and of arrays of prefe...
Author: | Raymond M. Herbenick |
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Published: |
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1994
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Volume: | 22 |
Pages: | 251-294 |
Periodical: | The University of Dayton review |
Number: | 3 |
Format: | Article |
Topic: | -
Doctrine
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From man to God
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[Morale]
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[Études générales de morale]
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Ethics
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Status: | Active |
Summary: | H. presented the result of his research into Augustine's development of a mathematical ethics for the formal construction of a moral thermometer to measure human goodness and human evil ordinally, i.e., by way of matrices of logical disjunctions of possibilities (matrix logic) and of arrays of preference principles (preference/deontic logic) as found in nine of Augustine's philosophical texts during his anti-Manichaean (and anti-Stoic Paradox 3) period from AD 386 to AD 405. |
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