5 October 2018
casuistry
[kazh-oo-uh-stree]
noun, plural casuistries.
1. specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, especially in questions of morality; fallacious or dishonest application of general principles; sophistry.
2. the application of general ethical principles to particular cases of conscience or conduct.
Origin of casuistry
1715-1725 First recorded in 1715-25; casuist + -ry
Dictionary.com
Examples from the Web for casuistry
Contemporary Examples
The responses were telling in their casuistry, their amorality, their evasiveness.
The Hearing From Hell
Tunku Varadarajan
April 27, 2010
These questions will not be easily dodged; nor will the faithful be placated by casuistry or platitudes.
Leave the Pope Alone
Tunku Varadarajan
April 4, 2010
Historical Examples
His spirit is the opposite of that of Jesuitism or casuistry (Wallace).
Sophist
Plato
And then she delivered herself of an amazing piece of casuistry.
The Strolling Saint
Raphael Sabatini
“I have no leisure for casuistry, nor is it my humor, sir,” replied he angrily.
Tom Burke Of “Ours”, Volume II (of II)
Charles James Lever
And now I have said more than I had intended on a question of casuistry.
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
John Henry Cardinal Newman
There might be some casuistry in that, but there was truth as well.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
Amanda Minnie Douglas
On this excuse I settled my point of casuistry in an instant.
Simon Dale
Anthony Hope
casuistry is nothing but the injection of your own meaning into an old name.
A Preface to Politics
Walter Lippmann
The system of casuistry was one not solely of Jesuitical invention.
Pascal
John Tulloch
Today’s quote
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
– Bob Geldof
On this day
5 October 1902 – birth of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds … and the Big Mac … Died 14 January 1984.
5 October 1945 – Hollywood Black Friday – following a 6 month strike by set decorators, a violent riot breaks out at the gates of Warner Brothers studio. 300 police are called and 40 people are injured.
5 October 1945 – birth of Brian Connolly, Scottish rocker, lead singer of Sweet (Fox on the Run, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Action). Died 9 February 1997.
5 October 1947 – birth of Brian Johnson, English rocker, lead singer of AC/DC, replacing Bon Scott.
5 October 1951 – birth of Bob Geldoff, Irish singer for the Boomtown Rats.
5 October 1962 – the Beatle’s first single is released, ‘Love Me Do’. Although a Lennon-McCartney composition, it was primarily written by Paul in 1958-9 while he was wagging school. The song reached # 17 in the UK and was the # 1 hit in the U.S.A. in 1964.
5 October 1969 – Monty Python’s Flying Circus first broadcast on BBC-TV.
5 October 2011 – death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Born 24 February 1955.