NOUN
- argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
- moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
How To Use casuistry In A Sentence
- And he finishes with the sort of depraved casuistry he is always so eager to spot in his opponents.
- Impartial rule theory, casuistry, and virtue ethics are all consistent with rather than rivals of a principle-based account when it is properly conceived.
- Senators Cornyn and Reid should both just sit down, cool off, and allow the plain meanings of law, unstrained by the casuistry of lawyers or by the pulls of partisanship to provide guidance in these two cases. — Republican Leader Threatens to Block Seating of Franken - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- His spirit is the opposite of that of Jesuitism or casuistry (Wallace). The Sophist
- To regard the Sermon on the Mount as an ‘interim ethic’ or a ‘kingdom ethic’ is casuistry.
- You see, casuistry and even "majoritarianism" helps little in these situations ... On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry.
- If this isn't deliberate casuistry, it is at the very least severely myopic.
- Is there a real difference, or are these distinctions just casuistry?
- The conversations in this book have often quite unexpected turns of humour, and are filled with oversubtle questions of casuistry and curious reasonings. Essays on Russian Novelists
