Casuistry

Is not what they call casuistry a science among Roman ❋ Mark Rutherford (1872)

This casuistry is too much for Cromwell, who loses his composure for the first and only time: ❋ Unknown (2010)

We can see how and why the word casuistry received the particular coloring with which it is now connected. ❋ WERNER STARK (1968)

The word casuistry (literally “concern with individual cases”) has been used in three different, if connected meanings. ❋ WERNER STARK (1968)

For we repeat -- that the name, the word casuistry, may be evaded, but the thing cannot; nor _is_ it evaded in our daily conversations. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

I’ve always found Catholic thought (e.g. the theology and philosophy of Aquinas) to be very legalistic, and to frequently engage in casuistry [in the non-pejorative sense of case-based reasoning], which closely resembles the common-law method in the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And this is what we mean by casuistry, which is the application of a moral principle to the _cases_ arising in human life. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

But this casuistry, as well as lying open to the distortion Hogg attacks (for private interest can be a kind of casuistry too), forfeits Luther's clear point about religious support for secularism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By a casuistry which is now elevated into an economic principle, but which has no defenders outside the realm of banking, a warehouseman who deals in money is subject to a diviner law: the banker is free to use for his private interest and profit the money left in trust .... ❋ Unknown (2008)

But an awful lot of it consists of what can be called in the purely technical sense a kind of casuistry, an application of certain moral systems or principles or theories to discussing what we should think about abortion. ❋ Chappell, Timothy (2006)

By 'casuistry' I mean casuistry in the older technical sense the application of general moral principles to cases rather than in the more modern colloquial sense. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It is from this dispute that the word 'casuistry' got its bad name. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This stricture would apply even if Fischer used "casuistry" not in the normally understood sense of the term but in the sense suggested by his quotation from the OED. ❋ Fischer, Michael M.J. (1980)

This kind of casuistry is very common and very demoralizing; but it shows how rigid the law is. ❋ Edward Sell (N/A)

These therefore, are questions of casuistry, which depend upon the particular _case_: from which word the term "casuistry" is derived. ❋ Frederick W. Robertson (N/A)

One cannot take the denunciations of Jesuitical "casuistry" and "probabilism" at their face value, but one can find in Jesuit works on ethics, and in some of their early works, very dangerous compromises with the world. ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)

And what happens thereupon is this, that by means of a certain kind of casuistry, by the allegation of certain possible cases of conduct, the whole of that supposed area of the Just is occupied by definitions of Injustice, from this centre or that. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

But there are other cases, and especially those which arise not between different times but between different places, which will often require the same kind of casuistry as that which is so ably applied by the good and learned bishop. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)