(1) No doubt it may be said that this is mere casuistry and does not meet the objection that a person who has or believes he has a good defence may still feel under pressure to plead guilty.(2) In Minois' account, the questions raised towards the end of the sixteenth century were met in the seventeenth by an increasingly hard-line response within law, the clergy, and certain forms of thought such as casuistry .(3) Impartial rule theory, casuistry , and virtue ethics are all consistent with rather than rivals of a principle-based account when it is properly conceived.(4) 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.(5) This focus explains, for instance, contemporary fascination with such questions of casuistry as, e.g., the conditions under which an action like abortion is morally permitted or immoral.(6) The Christian tradition of casuistry began at least as early as the Celtic Penitential Books of the sixth century.(7) And he finishes with the sort of depraved casuistry he is always so eager to spot in his opponents.(8) That is why the just war tradition is a theory of statecraft, not simply a method of casuistry .(9) It has the ring of casuistry , of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner.(10) the minister is engaging in nothing more or less than casuistry(11) Yet casuistry was always controversial, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it became thoroughly discredited.(12) The historical origins of double effect as a tenet of Catholic casuistry might provide a similar explanation for the unity of its applications.(13) Is there a real difference, or are these distinctions just casuistry ?(14) It must explain away historical shifts in values, culture, and the natural sciences with casuistry - either reinterpreting history's events or simply ignoring inconvenient facts.(15) He seems to confuse good governance with u2018political bullyingu2019, and should take lessons in casuistry from someone.(16) To regard the Sermon on the Mount as an u2018interim ethicu2019 or a u2018kingdom ethicu2019 is casuistry .
