casuistic , also: casuistical

Then casuistic stretching allows the guilt to be accepted into the world.

"I cannot occupy myself with casuistic distinctions," replied the elder.

He drew a distinction between three questions in ethics: psychological, metaphysical, casuistic.

Everything was decided on a casuistic basis.

Typically, casuistic reasoning begins with a clear-cut paradigmatic case.

His scholarship, however, was very different from the casuistic studies of the corrupt Polish rabbis, and had a deeply mystical cast.

"The factitious and casuistic methods of deduction you chaps pursue are apt to lead almost anywhere.

Of course the casuistic effort often placed them in an unfavourable light, but they could also be presented as empiricists, serious but friendly and human.

In addition, Bernardin argued that since the 1950s the church had moved against its own historical, casuistic exceptions to the protection of life.

No single abstract principle can be so used as to yield to the philosopher anything like a scientifically accurate and genuinely useful casuistic scale."

Homosexuality is expressly forbidden in many religions, but typically in casuistic rather than apodictic laws.

The casuistic method was popular among Catholic thinkers in the early modern period, and not only among the Jesuits, as it is commonly thought.

But this resolution of the metaphysical question only makes the casuistic question (settling the true order of human obligations) seem hopelessly difficult.

Following out this idea, he discusses in a casuistic form food and drink, dress and love of finery, bodily exercises and social conduct.

Pilpul has entered English as a colloquialism used by some to indicate extreme disputation or casuistic hairsplitting.

But Posner goes farther, to show how Clinton's casuistic evasions of the truth were also perjurious.

His fanatical hatred for revolutionary and enlightenment ideas is hidden behind a faux neutrality and casuistic slight of pen.

The term "pilpul" was increasingly applied derogatorily to novellae deemed casuistic and hairsplitting.

They argue that the abuse of casuistry is the problem, not casuistry per se (itself an example of casuistic reasoning).

Church authorities believed that Valentinian theology was "a wickedly casuistic way of subverting their authority and thereby threatening the ecclesiastical order with anarchy."

Bacharach was the author of an essay on the Jewish calendar, a number of apologetic works against Christianity, liturgical poems, and casuistic treatises.

Moreover, the ethical philosophies of Utilitarianism (especially preference utilitarianism) and Pragmatism commonly are identified as greatly employing casuistic reasoning.

The laws are arranged in casuistic form of IF (crime) THEN (punishment)-a pattern followed in nearly all later codes.

It is too late for everything that has characterized the ugly, thoughtless, vengeful, casuistic debate of what is now, without doubt, the greatest constitutional excruciation of our time.

In Provincial Letters (1656-7) he scolded the Jesuits for using casuistic reasoning in confession to placate wealthy Church donors, while punishing poor penitents.