Casuistry is argumentation that is suspect and sneaky. Politicians, lawyers, and car salesmen who make dubious arguments full of holes are guilty of casuistry.
The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.
Noun
moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
Noun
argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
a.
The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of
conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or
determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by
rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of
society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the
application of general moral rules to particular cases.
a.
Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching
in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.
Casuistry
The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times, to a particular department of it, distinguished by the title of casuistry.
Casuistry in the science of cases (i.e., oblique deflections from the general rule).2.
The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases.
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