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Casuistry
Casuistry Cas"u*ist*ry, a.
1. The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of
conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in
conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of
what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the
Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or
from equity and natural reason; the application of general
moral rules to particular cases.
The consideration of these nice and puzzling
question in the science of ethics has given rise, in
modern times, to a particular department of it,
distinguished by the title of casuistry. --Stewart.
Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique
deflections from the general rule). --De Quincey.
2. Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in
regard to duties, obligations, and morals.
Meaning of Casuistry from wikipedia
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Casuistry (/ˈkæzjuɪstri/ KAZ-ew-iss-tree) is a
process of
reasoning that s****s to
resolve moral problems by
extracting or
extending abstract rules from...
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Puritan casuistry is a
genre of
British religious literature, in the
general area of
moral theology, and
recognised as
founded about 1600. The work A...
- this time, he
collaborated with
Albert R.
Jonsen to
write The
Abuse of
Casuistry: A
History of
Moral Reasoning (1988),
which demonstrates the procedures...
- Cicero, in book III of his De Officiis. In the
Christian tradition of
casuistry, an
approach to
abstract ranking of
principles introduced by Bartolomé...
- with the
other eighteen. In
these letters,
Pascal humorously attacked casuistry, a
rhetorical method often used by
Jesuit theologians, and
accused Jesuits...
- example.
Arguing one way one day, and
another later, can be
defended by
casuistry, i.e. by
saying the
cases are different. In the
legal context, for practical...
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Ethics Cardinal virtues Just
price Just war
Principle of
Double Effect Casuistry Probabilism Natural law
Personalism Social teaching Liberation Theology...
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known as
casuistry.
Casuistry does not
begin with theory,
rather it
starts with the
immediate facts of a real and
concrete case.
While casuistry makes use...
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Ethics Cardinal virtues Just
price Just war
Principle of
Double Effect Casuistry Probabilism Natural law
Personalism Social teaching Liberation Theology...
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Ethics Cardinal virtues Just
price Just war
Principle of
Double Effect Casuistry Probabilism Natural law
Personalism Social teaching Liberation Theology...
