In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its subsequent fall into disrepute from the mid-seventeenth century.

The Maccabean Lecture by the most outspoken prestigious opponent of the Wolfenden reform proposal. Answered by Stuart Hampshire, A.J. Ayer, et al.--Jim Kepner.