Casuistry (), or case-based reasoning, is a method in applied ethics and jurisprudence, often characterised as a critique of principle-or rule-based reasoning.

Casuistry is reasoning used to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending theoretical rules from particular instances and applying these rules to new instances.

Casuistry is a method of case reasoning especially useful in treating cases that involve moral dilemmas.

Casuistry is prone to abuses wherever the analogies between cases are false.

" He also asserted, " Casuistry is the goal of ethical investigation.

A good reference, analyzing the methodological structure of casuistic argument, is The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning ( 1990 ), by Albert Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin ( ISBN 0-520-06960-9 ).

Richman is the author of a three-part essay entitled Beware Income Tax Casuistry, which critiques various tax protester arguments about the constitutionality of the U. S. federal income tax.

Casuistry does not begin with theory, rather it starts with the immediate facts of a real and concrete case.

For more information on this type of reasoning, see: Casuistry.

Casuists, like Albert Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin ( The Abuse of Casuistry 1988 ), challenge the traditional paradigm of applied ethics.

Casuistry takes a relentlessly practical approach to morality.

Casuistry does not require practitioners to agree about ethical theories or evaluations before making policy.

It was not until publication of The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning ( 1988 ), by Albert Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, that a revival of casuistry occurred.

Casuistry was much mistrusted by early Protestant theologians, because it justified many of the abuses that they sought to reform.

" The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning.

" The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning.

" Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics.

" A Case for Casuistry in the Church.

" Casuistry: A Case-Based Method for Journalists.

" A Historical Introduction to Jewish Casuistry on Suicide and Euthanasia.

" The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning.

" The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning.

" Creative Casuistry and Feminist Consciousness: The Rhetoric of Moral Reform.

Modern Casuistry: An Essential But Incomplete Method for Clinical Ethical Decision-Making.

Approaches to Clinical Ethical Decision-Making: Ethical Theory, Casuistry and Consultation.

" Abortion in Jewish Thought: A Study in Casuistry.

" The Abuse of Casuistry.

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But is the result new barnsful of tested knowledge on the basis of which we can with confidence solve our domestic and international problems??

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That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.

He assures us, early in the Poetics, that all art is `` imitation '' and that all imitation gives pleasure, but he distinguishes between art in general and poetic art on the basis of the means, manner, and the objects of the imitation.

And it is this, particularly the establishment of archaeology and place-name studies on a scientific basis, which are immediately pertinent to the Saxon Shore.

A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.

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In the case of taxpaying corporate stockholders, the measure would be the lesser of the fair market value of the shares or Du Pont's tax basis for them, which is approximately $2.09 per share.

As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.

It is estimated that about 542,250 miles of forest development roads, and 80,000 miles of trails, constitute the system that will eventually be needed to obtain the maximum practicable yield and use of the wood, water, forage, and wildlife and recreation resources of the National Forests on a continuing basis.

With the existence of these many factors, some of them variable, it obviously has never been and is not now possible for the Commission to make assignments of AM stations on a case-to-case basis which will insure against any interference in any circumstances.

Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.