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The Persistence of Casuistry: the Revival of Case-Based Reasoning

The Persistence of Casuistry: the Revival of Case-Based Reasoning. I. ca suistry defined. II. casuistry despised. I II. casuistry rehabilitated. IV. casuistry in the classroom. I. ca suistry defined. abortion. 45% prolife 49% prochoice.

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The Persistence of Casuistry: the Revival of Case-Based Reasoning

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  1. The Persistence of Casuistry:the Revival of Case-Based Reasoning

  2. I. casuistry defined II. casuistry despised III. casuistry rehabilitated IV. casuistry in the classroom

  3. I. casuistry defined

  4. abortion

  5. 45% prolife49% prochoice Gallup poll July 2011

  6. 27% legal under any circumstance22% illegal in any circumstance 50% legal only under certain circumstances

  7. confession

  8. Casuistry: an example

  9. II. casuistry despised

  10. Protagoras - sophist

  11. Plato 428 – 427 B.C.E.

  12. "...it is a lesser sin if a man seduces a beautiful woman than an ugly one, for he is compelled by beauty, and, where there is greater compulsion, there is less sin." Alain of Lille (12th century)

  13. 1556 – 1656“high casuistry”

  14. Jesuits

  15. 1660

  16. Casuistry – “the art of quibbling with God.”Penny Encyclopedia 1836

  17. Casuistry destroys by distinctions and exceptions all morality, and effaces the essential difference between right and wrong.Oxford English Dictionary

  18. no tolerance policies

  19. III. casuistry rehabilitated

  20. 1988

  21. ethics as deductive reason

  22. Lying is morally wrong. The bishop lied to the police. The bishop’s action was morally wrong.

  23. “He condemned nothing hastily or without taking account of circumstances…he had none of the inaccessibility of a rigid moralist.” Victor Hugo on Bishop Myriel in Les Miserables (13)

  24. It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject matter admits.Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 1094b24-26

  25. Cicero 106-43 B.C.E.

  26. “It is hard work to be excellent … To do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy…” Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 1109a

  27. IV. casuistry in the classroom

  28. start with detailed cases

  29. explore differences between cases

  30. work out a taxonomy

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