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casuistry

The application of an ethical theory to particular cases or types of case, especially in theology and dogmatics. Casuistry is contrasted with situationism, which considers each moral situation as it arises and without reference to ethical theory or moral principles.

Most ethical theories can be shown to be inadequate, if sufficient effort is devoted to identifying increasingly subtle features in a particular moral situation. Hence, casuistry has fallen into disrepute.



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17) Creses' casuistical "seeming not to contend" echoes Roxana's earlier advice to Cloria that she give her "seeming consent" to an unwanted proposal of marriage: "which promise cannot binde at all, not onely in respect of your former obligation to Narcissus, but also in regard you are a prisoner, and therefore not tied to any contract made in such a state.
Reinventing romance, or the surprising effects of sympathy by Kahn, Victoria / Renaissance Quarterly
For their constant discussion of their own motives and their casuistical dismissal of inconvenient facts bore witness in their own eyes to their moral concern.
Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties by Hartley, Anthony / The National Interest
In terms of the local English history that directly involved Donne, the Jacobean Oath of Allegiance created a whole new territory for casuistical debate, since English Catholics, forbidden by the pope to take the Oath, were faced by a conflict between two binding imperatives.
Donne and the Politics of Conscience in Early Modern England by Patterson, Annabel / Renaissance Quarterly
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