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Equity as a question of decorum and manners: conscience as vision

Haldar, Piyel (2016) Equity as a question of decorum and manners: conscience as vision. Polemos 10 (2), pp. 311-327. ISSN 2035-5262.

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Abstract

This paper argues for a re-evaluation of the manner in which conscience is used by equity lawyers. Debates by early modern humanists sought an alignment between conscience and public office. Indeed, conscience had very little to do with the private morals or private compunction of the Chancellor. Rather, conscience was implicated at the level of duty, honestas and dignity. It required stricter attention to the metaphysics of public official conduct. In these terms, conscience was a humanist re-evaluation of a classical idea that gave heavier emphasis to the poesis of vision.

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Item Type: Article
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): conscience, office, Cicero, decorum, private morality, vision
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School
Depositing User: Piyel Haldar
Date Deposited: 29 Sep 2016 14:16
Last Modified: 13 Jun 2025 06:03
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14983

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