Noun:

कैस्युइस्ट्री,

casuistry's Usage Examples:

Casuistry came to the aid of average human nature - that is to say, pupils began to confront the master with hard cases taken from daily life.

religion, which lays its chief stress upon moral precepts, may readily develop into casuistry and external formalism, with an.

It was inevitable that, in proportion as this casuistry assumed the character of a systematic penal jurisprudence, its precise determination of the limits between the prohibited and the allowable, with all doubtful points closely scrutinized and illustrated by fictitious cases, would have a tendency to weaken the moral sensibilities of ordinary minds; the greater the industry spent in deducing conclusions from the diverse authorities, the greater necessarily became the number of points on which doctors disagreed; and the central authority that might have repressed serious divergences was wanting in the period of moral weakness'- that the church went through after the death of Boniface Viii.

At first they are little more than mere inventories of sins, with their appropriate ecclesiastical punishments; gradually cases of conscience come to be discussed and decided, and the basis is laid for that system of casuistry which reached its full development in the 14th and 15th centuries.

With all the Puritan eagerness to push a clear, uncompromising, Scripture-based distinction of right and wrong into the affairs of every-day life, he has a thoroughly English horror of casuistry, and his clumsy canons consequently make wild work with the infinite intricacies of human nature.

John recoiled from the idle casuistry which occupied his own logical contemporaries; and, mindful probably of their aimless ingenuity, he adds the caution that dialectic, valuable and necessary as it is, is " like the sword of Hercules in a pigmy's hand " unless there be added to it the accoutrement of the other sciences.

casuistry found no place, because there were no sacred books.

But common-sense and conscience are quite as definite guides as logic or authority; and there seems no good reason for refusing to give the name of casuistry to their operations.

Very soon, however, these relics of casuistry were swept away by the rising tide of common-sense.

The casuistry of primitive man is uncompromisingly legal.

Synonyms:

argumentation, logical argument, line, line of reasoning, argument,

Antonyms:

nonconformity, noncompliance, uncover, curve, straight line,