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casuistry

NOUN
  1. argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
  2. moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas

How To Use casuistry In A Sentence

  • That is why the just war tradition is a theory of statecraft, not simply a method of casuistry.
  • The Christian tradition of casuistry began at least as early as the Celtic Penitential Books of the sixth century.
  • When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
  • Chandler suggests that casuistry instantiates the very form of deliberation as value-constructing activity, and he explains its historical evolution from the classical Jesuit activity to English Romanticism.
  • Bred to casuistry, and well accustomed to practise the ambidexter ingenuity of the bar, it cost him little trouble to soften the features of the tumult which he had been at first so anxious to exaggerate. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • At the root of all such casuistry is the inability of the comfortable inhabitants of the developed world to realise how bad the worst can be.
  • December 11th, 2009 11: 20am ------, but of course he cannot answer, but at least I think I have more fun with his nonsense than what you call our henry, s casuistry. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • The old casuistry of latency is itself a product of the sexual imaginary of surfaces and depths, and always implies a diagnosis of symptoms and prognosis for their correction .
  • The old casuistry of latency is itself a product of the sexual imaginary of surfaces and depths, and always implies a diagnosis of symptoms and prognosis for their correction .
  • Medieval scholasticism has continued to fuel contemporary debates on euthanasia and abortion and it has helped revive casuistry (now called ‘applied ethics’ and performed by committees).
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