Casuistry
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Ancient Law
The Roman Catholic school of casuistic moral reasoning distinguishing mortal from venial sin.
“Shortly after the Reformation, we find two great schools of thought dividing this class of subjects between them.
Moral theology, developed by the juridical method of doctor commenting on doctor, provided itself with a phraseology of its own, and Aristotelian peculiarities of reasoning and expression, imbibed doubtless in great part from the Disputations on Morals in the academical schools, take the place of that special turn of thought and speech which can never be mistaken by any person conversant with the Roman law.
Law in a Free State
The method of case-based ethical reasoning about exceptions to general moral rules, invoked regarding when it is right to break the law.
Let us avoid casuistry.