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The casuist might conclude that a person is wrong to lie in legal testimony under oath, but might argue that lying actually is the best moral choice if the lie saves a life.
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casuist and might
While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or unethical.
casuist and person
They were also ridiculed in witty verses by Molière, Boileau and La Fontaine, and gradually the name Escobar came to signify in France any person who is adroit in making the rules of morality harmonize with his own interests, a casuist.
casuist and is
“ This is not, properly speaking, to permit duelling ; on the contrary, the casuist is so persuaded that this practice is forbidden that, in licensing the action in question, he carefully avoids calling it a duel .” ( Letter VII )
He is celebrated as a teacher, preacher, and casuist.
casuist and wrong
He was delighted with the enthusiasm of a born casuist in curious puzzles of right and wrong, and in devising a conflict between the generalities of ethics and the conditions of an ingeniously contrived practical dilemma.
casuist and under
From it, the casuist would ask how closely the given case currently under consideration matches the paradigmatic case.
In 1679 Pope Innocent XI publicly condemned sixty-five casuist propositions, taken chiefly from the writings of Escobar, Suárez and others, mostly Jesuit, theologians as propositiones laxorum moralistarum and forbade anyone to teach them under penalty of excommunication.
casuist and moral
By drawing parallels between paradigms, so-called " pure cases ", and the case at hand, a casuist tries to determine a moral response appropriate to a particular case.
casuist and .
) For the casuist, the circumstances of a case are essential for evaluating the proper response.
Born in Itri, he was a devout monk and learned casuist, trained at Avignon.
In his personal character Turenne showed little more than the nature of a simple and honorable soldier, endowed with much tact ; but in the world of politics and intellect he seemed almost helpless in the hands of a skilful intriguer or casuist.
His oratorical fervor and genuine depth of conviction gave him great personal influence ; he was extensively consulted as a casuist, and was welcomed with enthusiasm on his journeys throughout Germany.
Equally high was Obadiah's reputation as a casuist.
Robert Sanderson ( 19 September 1587 – 29 January 1663 ) was an English theologian and casuist.
Pollak himself, however, was not responsible for these, since he modestly refrained from publishing the decisions at which he arrived by his system, not wishing to be regarded as a casuist whose decisions were to be implicitly followed.
Tomás Sánchez ( 1550 – 19 May 1610 ) was a 16th century Spanish Jesuit and famous casuist.
might and conclude
Starting from other value premises than Fromm's, some analysts might conclude that the percentages really tell us very little at all, while others might even conclude that the figures are remarkably low.
Since an objective viewer might well conclude that this is not a situation that would often arise, the film's extensive discussion of the problem seems, at best, superfluous.
He suggested that from the data one might conclude that, on average, Asian Americans are more intelligent than white Americans.
They concluded that it could " mislead the viewer as to the true nature of the product " as the advert contained so many pieces of Caribbean imagery, one might conclude it came from Cuba.
One lab can conclude a stone is untreated, while another lab might conclude that it is heat-treated.
If one flips a coin 21 times in a row and obtains 21 heads, one might rationally conclude a high probability of bias towards heads, and hence conclude that future flips of this coin are also highly likely to be heads.
One might see all this and conclude, " Well, Leibniz's Law must not be a law at all, but a false claim!
We might conclude that soon, a great amount of trees would fall ; however this is not the case.
To explain such patterns, one might conclude, per Aristotle, that emergent structures are more than the sum of their parts on the assumption that the emergent order will not arise if the various parts simply interact independently of one another.
Without careful analysis of the definition, one might erroneously conclude that an instance of http :// www. w3. org / TR / 2004 / REC-owl-guide-20040210 / wine # Merlot was something physical, instead of a type of wine.
A user might rightly conclude that the mere possibility of being irrevocably cut-off from access to his or her own information, or to years ' worth of expensive work-products, with no opportunity for recovery of that information, is unacceptable.
Stone shot a scene showing the honest Mannheim giving in to insider trading and Lipper argued that audiences might conclude that everyone on Wall Street is corrupt and insisted that the film needed an unimpeachable character.
The incipient Cold War in evidence following World War II led the new administration of Juan Perón to conclude that a third world war might follow.
According to Simek, " several of the Eddic sources might lead us to conclude that the dísir were valkyrie-like guardians of the dead, and indeed in Guðrúnarkviða I 19 the valkyries are even called Herjans dísir " Odin's dísir ".
" This is what Friedman meant by musicality, extending the idea more radically to conclude that anyone can create work of any kind from a score, acknowledging the composer as the originator of the work while realizing the work freely and even interpreting it in far different ways from those the original composer might have done.
In particular, on 2 January 1821, his troops suffered a bad defeat, leading Iturbide to conclude that he might not be able to defeat Guerrero.
The study went on to conclude that netilmicin might be useful as an alternative to intravenous vancomycin, and suggested that topical applications of hydrogen peroxide may be useful to reduce MRSA on skin and some mucous membranes.
His ostensibly early retirement led many to conclude that Jiang's Shanghai faction, and its representative figures such as Zeng Qinghong and Wu Bangguo, might have outmaneuvered Li and his supporters at the 16th party congress.
might and person
Noticing my disappointment he attempted to salvage what scraps and shreds of authority he felt might still be clinging to his person.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.
Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.
It is very important indeed, in the field of extra-sensory perception and its relation to the survival hypothesis, to know whether the statements are actually only those which any intuitive person might venture and an eager sitter attach to himself.
In that sense it represents the feudal liege homage, which could be due only to one lord, while simple homage might be due to every lord under whom the person in question held land.
Also, a therapist might choose to have the subject partake in what is called " exposure therapy " where the person is exposed to virtual spiders and then eventually live spiders little by little until they have overcome the phobia.
The insects then act as a vector, infecting any person or animal they might bite.
A person might be branded with a censorial mark in a variety of cases, which it would be impossible to specify, as in a great many instances it depended upon the discretion of the censors and the view they took of a case ; and sometimes even one set of censors would overlook an offence which was severely chastised by their successors.
A person who had been branded with a nota censoria, might, if he considered himself wronged, endeavour to prove his innocence to the censors, and if he did not succeed, he might try to gain the protection of one of the censors, that he might intercede on his behalf.
The punishments inflicted by the censors generally differed according to the station which a man occupied, though sometimes a person of the highest rank might suffer all the punishments at once, by being degraded to the lowest class of citizens.
This punishment might either be a simple exclusion from the list of senators, or the person might at the same time be excluded from the tribes and degraded to the rank of an aerarian.
# The fourth punishment was called referre in aerarios or facere aliquem aerarium, and might be inflicted on any person who was thought by the censors to deserve it.
For instance, a clairaudient person might claim to hear the voices or thoughts of the spirits of persons who are deceased.
Any person who felt himself wronged might lay an information before the Council of Areopagus, on declaring what law was broken by the wrong done to him.
This is for safety, because if it could open in both directions, someone approaching the door might be caught off-guard by someone else opening the other side, thus impacting the first person.
For example, an ill person with no medical training, but with a generally optimistic attitude, might believe that he will recover from his illness quickly.
A person who wishes to be vague might conceal words that are too precise in the social context.
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