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Abstract: In histories of medieval ethics, omists are usually portrayed as intellectualists and Scotists as voluntarists. e typically voluntarist linking of the morality of acts with an obligation towards a superior law is also often seen as the major infl uence exerted by late medieval ethics on early-modern natural law theories. e present article will challenge this standard narrative by presenting the early-modern scholastic de bate on the constitutive characters of sin (peccatum), as it was proposed by the Spanis h Cistercian Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz (1606-1682). It will reveal that most omists advocated in reality a very voluntarist and theocentric defi nition of sin, whereas many Scotists on the contrary defended a very intellectualist approach. Caramuel and some early-modern Scotists thereby played an important role in the development of a non-theological defi nition of sin, the peccatum philosophicum, which represents a major moment in the development of a strictly philosophical ethics during modernity. |
