单词 | casuistry |
释义 | casuistryn. 1. The science, art, or reasoning of the casuist; that part of Ethics which resolves cases of conscience, applying the general rules of religion and morality to particular instances in which ‘circumstances alter cases’, or in which there appears to be a conflict of duties. Often (and perhaps originally) applied to a quibbling or evasive way of dealing with difficult cases of duty; sophistry. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] sophistry1340 chop-logic1533 Jesuitism1613 chopping of logic1668 casuistry1712 sophism1768 special pleading1813 subtilism1825 Jesuitry1832 verbalism1847 logic-chopping1904 society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > moral theology casuistry1712 moral theology1728 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 374 Cages for Gnats..and Tomes of Casuistry. c1740 Visct. Bolingbroke Idea Patriot King xi. 100 Casuistry..destroys by Distinctions and Exceptions, all Morality, and effaces the essential Difference between Right and Wrong. 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 359 The science of casuistry..has been termed not inaptly the ‘art of quibbling with God’. 1841 R. W. Emerson Lect. on Times in Wks. (1906) II. 254 The Temperance-question..is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time. 1862 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism 37 Self-deception and dishonest casuistry. 1887 T. Fowler Princ. Morals ii. vi. 247 Granted that duties may clash, or that general rules may be modified by special circumstances, it is surely most important to determine beforehand, as far as we can, what those circumstances are, and, in the case of clashing duties, which should yield to the other. Now this, and this alone, is the task which ‘Casuistry’ or the attempt to ‘resolve cases of conscience’ proposes to itself. 2. A register or record of (medical) cases. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > record of medical cases casebook1675 casuistry1883 1883 J. W. Legg in St. Bartholomew's Hosp. Rep. 19 202 Nor can I find any similar case in the casuistry of pemphigus as recorded in the year-books. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1712 |
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