When “Meats are like Medicines”: Vitoria and Lessius on the Role of Food in the Duty to Preserve Life

Early Modern theologians Francisco de Vitoria and Leonardus Lessius analyzed the nature and limits of the obligation to preserve one's life through the use of food. Vitoria described the ethical foundations of and the circumstances that might limit such an obligation, while Lessius argued for a...

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Main Author: Fleming, Julia A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2008
In: Theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 99-115
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