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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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It may be observed however that Plato never intended to answer the question of casuistry, but only to exhibit the ideal of patient virtue which refuses to do the least evil in order to avoid the greatest, and to show his master maintaining in death the opinions which he had professed in his life.
Crito by Plato View in context
--or was it, I have sometimes wondered, an unconscious and after all a sound casuistry that had saved Elizabeth's soul, an instinctive philosophy that taught her, so to say, to lay a Sigurd's sword between her soul and body, and to argue that nothing can defile the body without the consent of the soul.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
Containing the great address of the landlady, the great learning of a surgeon, and the solid skill in casuistry of the worthy lieutenant.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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