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	Articles - Casuistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Casuistry (argument by cases) is an attempt to determine the correct response to a moral problem, often a moral dilemma, by drawing conclusions based on parallels with agreed responses to pure cases, also called paradigms.
		Casuistry is the basis of case law in common law.
		Casuistry is prone to abuses wherever the analogies between cases are false.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Casuistry?mySession=150113b21df8bb8aba547100bf780de9 (558 words)

	CASUISTRY - LoveToKnow Article on CASUISTRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The legal is the older group, and to it the name of casuist is often exclusively reserved, generally with the implication that its methods are too purely technical to commend themselves to mankind at large.
		Casuistry might insist that it only proposed to fix the minimum of a minimum, and beg them for, their souls sake to aim a little higher.
		In Protestant countries casuistry shrank and dwindled, though works on the subject continued to be written both in Germany and England during the 17th century.
	78.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CASUISTRY.htm (1346 words)

	Casuistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Casuistry is any attempt to determine the correct response to a moral problem, often a moral dilemma, by drawing conclusions based on parallels with agreed responses to pure cases, also called paradigms.
		Casuistry is successful because it doesn't require participants in the evaluation to agree about ethical theories or evaluations before making policy.
		Casuistry as a method was popular among Catholic thinkers in the early modern period, especially the Jesuits.
	www.wordlookup.net /ca/casuistry.html (451 words)

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		Cookson elaborates, "Casuistry thus plays a prominent role in both legal and ethical reasoning: The particulars of the case are crucial to the determination of the legality or morality of the conduct.
		Because casuistry is a process or method, the substance of the relevant paradigms, presumptions, and principles that are necessary for resolving free exercise cases must come from elsewhere.
		The second obstacle to a free exercise casuistry is the likelihood that in times of severe social stress, mainstream religions are apt to act on their religious phobias and attempt to oppress nondominant religious groups.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/cookson0.htm (2251 words)

	Casuistry Primer
		Their purpose is to wet one's feet on the subject of Casuistry, not to lay down the final word.
		Casuistry, in the spirit of Casuistry itself, is not a complete formal theory.
		Casuistry bootstraps particular justifications on the backs of particular subjects of inquiry, in a kind of "pay as you go" plan.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/2448/Primer.html (563 words)

	Casuistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Casuistry is a method of ethical case analysis.
		Casuistry is successful because it does not require participants in the evaluation to agree about ethical theories or evaluations before making policy.
		It will quickly be apprehended that casuistry is prone to abuses, wherever the analogies between adduced cases are false ones.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ca/Casuistry.htm (451 words)

	Casuistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		CASUISTRY is a form of PRACTICAL ARGUMENT that explores the RELATIONSHIP between assumed MORAL PARADIGMS (prima facie duties) and PROBLEMATIC INSTANCES (difficult cases).
		The medieval term for 'casuistry' is translated from casus conscientitae or 'cases of conscience.' It involved the study and discussion of difficult cases, cases that would provoke a perplexed conscience.
		The method of casuistry came to be seen as a source of excuse-making.
	caae.phil.cmu.edu /edm/casuistry/casuistry.html (725 words)

	Medusa's Gaze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Casuistry is acutely analyzed as an instrument of pastoral care, a colonizing agent (i.e., an instrument of social and political control), and an epistemological procedure focusing on the difficult boundary between culpability and innocence.
		Casuistry gained unprecedented notoriety in the last two decades of Elizabeth's reign, emerging as an ambiguous practice that continued to be claimed as a heuristic procedure while it also came to function as a locus of moral and epistemological uncertainty.
		Reading the text of casuistry in the Renaissance illumines the pivotal, complementary processes of reading and writing the texts through which Elizabethan culture defined itself --its texts of power, its hierarchy of values and norms, its taboos, and its tacit or naturalized protocol for determining canonical texts and "good" readings.
	www.english.ucla.edu /RecentPubs/Medusa.html (377 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Burgundy
		Being merely a science of application, casuistry must be based on the principles and established conclusions of moral theology and ethics.
		Since the special function of casuistry is to determine practically and in the concrete the presence or absence of a definite moral obligation, it does not fall within its scope to pass judgment on what would be more advisable, or on what may be recommended as a counsel of perfection.
		The objections that are urged against casuistry arise from misconception of its purpose and scope, or from errors and abuses that have sometimes accompanied its practice.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03415d.htm (1303 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 51, No. 2 - July 1994 - ARTICLE - Thinking Through the Ethics of Abortion
		Casuistry can be a useful method for resolving the contemporary abortion debate precisely because it attends to the context of an act, without jettisoning the ability to make concrete claims about morality.
		The goal of these books, and of the practice of casuistry itself, was not rooted in legalistic formulations intended to exact a just measure of penance for the sin (as it was assumed, at least early on, that this aspect would be accomplished in the one-time public penance).
		Both casuistry and caring hold that rules and maxims are important to the moral life, and both, therefore, avoid slipping into any one of the various brands of relativism or emotivism.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1994/v51-2-article3.htm (5667 words)

	Legal Philosophy Blog: December 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Casuistry consists in interpreting data, and never in adducing or discarding evidence.
		Interestingly, legal casuistry is similar to the processes of diplomacy, to medical diagnosis, and to moral and even aesthetic deliberation.
		The value of casuistry often is underrated and the modern tendency of empiricism is to place too high a value on the mere accumulation of facts.
	legalphil.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_legalphil_archive.html (3021 words)

	Ethics - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is, not coincidentally, also the way business and law tend to be taught.
		Casuistry is one such application of case-based reasoning to applied ethics.
		Almost all American states have tried to discourage dishonest practices by their public employees and elected officials by establishing an Ethics Commission for their state.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Ethics (2958 words)

	Not-So-Public-Relations: Drug Industry & Bioethics - is it casuistry or sophistry?
		AHRP is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such endeavors.
		They would have us believe that the articles and editorials they write, and the public health policies they endorse are not influenced by their corporate sponsors, but are for the public good.
		Bioethicists are able to delude themselves about their role and value to the biomedical industry by adopting casuistry as their ethical prism.
	www.ahrp.org /infomail/03/12/19a.php (1652 words)

	SF Indie Fest - Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat
		An alarmed roommate told the police, they were arrested, and they became wildly notorious and rightly scorned.
		Casuistry premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival amidst a firestorm of controversy, the film condemned by people who’d never seen it as a glorification of the cat-killers.
		But they weren’t even close – Asher’s film is a serious and unsettling exploration of this gruesome story.
	www.sfindie.com /indiefest05/films/casuistry.htm (264 words)

	village voice > film > Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat; Another Road Home; Centenary of Jean Vigo; and more by
		As he had done in an earlier project with a chicken, Power planned on eating his victim to illustrate humankind's hypocrisy in its treatment of animals.
		It's not until Casuistry's home stretch that Asher details the parts of the equation elided by media reports.
		The "art experiment" was conducted under the influence of datura, a natural hallucinogen, and without adequate training in feline vivisection: One person's torture is another's gross incompetence.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0517,tracking1,63397,20.html (1449 words)

	Broadmining: Casuistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Casuistry (argument by cases) is an attempt to determine the correct response to a moral problem, often a moral dilemma, by drawing conclusions based on parallels with agreed responses to pure cases, also called
		This form of reasoning is the basis of case law in
		For this reason, casuistry is the form of reasoning used in
	lowide.com /Casuistry (451 words)

	Casuistry--A Summary
		The historical roots of casuistry can be found in ancient Rome and Greece. Cicero, the great rhetorician, described early casuist methodology in his work, On Duty (106-43 BCE).
		Jonsen further claims that Fletcher sees situationism as somewhat related to casuistry, to the effect that it may be a “casuistry obedient to love”, or “neocasuistry” (p.
		In Miller’s words, “casuistry seeks to deliver us from those occasions when rules are unclear, when conflicting rules pull us in opposite directions, or when we must ascertain degrees of moral culpability” (p.
	www.jeramyt.org /papers/casuistry.html (601 words)

	casuistry
		IYou'll find the word "casuistry" (pronounced kazoo-istry) in most dictionaries, just above "cat." It refers to a method of ethical analysis which takes into account the unique circumstances of particular cases.
		Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat scratches its way beneath the surface of an infamous Toronto animal cruelty case, deftly exploring the opaque logic surrounding this macabre act.
		Jesse Power, ex-vegetarian, was an art student when he conceived a new project.
	www.roughage.org /cas.html (278 words)

	Pets.ca - Pet forum for dogs cats and humans - Toronto Int. Film Fest. to screen "Casuistry: The Art of Killing a ...
		I was horrified to learn that Linda Feesey's film, “Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat,” is scheduled as part of the Toronto Film Festival.
		Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat is produced by Linda Feesey and directed by Zev Asher.
		To set the mood, they open Casuistry with scenes from a 1980 "performance art" flick, in which two cats are disembowelled and worn as hats.
	www.pets.ca /forum/printthread.php?t=6895 (1867 words)

	Just and Unjust Wars: Casuistry and the Boundaries of the Moral World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Boyle cites casuistry as a highly practical method, but cautions that it is an insufficient guide in extreme situations for which there are no existing moral norms.
		Boyle points out that in cases where casuistry fails Walzer he turns to consequentialism, which bases moral decisions upon the likelihood that the benefit of an action will outweigh the harm.
		He concludes that the method of rationalistic deontology provided by Donagan is preferable to Walzer's casuistry.
	www.carnegiecouncil.org /viewMedia.php/prmID/431 (251 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Casuistry and Modern Ethics, Richard B. Miller sheds new light on the potential of casuistry--case-based reasoning--for resolving these and other questions of conscience raised by the practical quandaries of modern life.
		Rejecting the packaging of moral experience within simple descriptions and inflexible principles, Miller argues instead for identifying and making sense of the ethically salient features of individual cases.
		Opening new avenues for practical reasoning, Miller's interdisciplinary work will challenge scholars who are interested in the intersections of ethics and political philosophy, cultural criticism, and debates about method in religion and morality.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226526372 (305 words)

	Casuistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the heart of casuistry is a fundamentally sound syllogistic impulse that has been perverted by excess pressure from deep-seated and untreated chaos generators in the brain stem.
		Treatment: divergent tendencies respond well to directalis, antiauthoritarian tendencies to obedioflavin bromide (BootCamp 500), parody to reprobamate (Panacean G), inverted logic to lineazolamide (Logosipan Z, Booledrine).
		Casuistry, unlike critical thinking, is generally a superficial disease that is easily uprooted or adjusted back into acceptable bounds.
	home.olemiss.edu /~djr/pages/writer/books/html/addictions/pdr-cas.html (174 words)

	Specious judgment and other oblique definitions of the word “casuistry” by Zev Asher. Cinema Scope Magazine ...
		My film, Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat, is not on the list but is apparently still under consideration.
		The group’s leader, a distressed creature named Suzanne LaHaie, has been following this case from the outset, and harbours a personal conviction that she is being persecuted by the cat killers.
		When the case first broke, Freedom for Animals began to alert the public to the nastiness of the crime and the relatively light sentences given to the perps.
	www.cinema-scope.com /cs21/spo_asher_festival.htm (1774 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Screens: That Darn Documentary
		The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is no stranger to controversy, but the Austin art house's upcoming screenings of the documentary film Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat are already generating concern from local animal-rights activists and various members of the film-going public.
		If anything, Casuistry is a pro-animal, anti-stupid human film, and one that calls into question not only the validity of the act, but the mental state of the actors, none of whom seem to put much thought into their willfully inept atrocity exhibition.
		Casuistry screens at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on Tuesday, June 28, July 5, and July 6 at 9:45pm.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-06-24/screens_feature.html (855 words)

	Toulmin and Casuistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The history of moral reasoning that is presented in Jonsen and Toulmin's book, The Abuse of Casuistry (University of California Press, 1988), is compelling in its analysis and provocative in its prescription.
		(3) A reflection upon the tradition of "casuistry" and its background sources in the ethics of Aristotle and the rhetoric of Cicero can stimulate a fresh approach to both contemporary moral philosophy and present day discussions in applied ethics.
		The methods of a modern day casuistry rely on the notion that practical reason moves forward through its confrontation with difficult cases.
	caae.phil.cmu.edu /Cavalier/Forum/euthanasia/background/Toulmin.html (524 words)

	Casuistry (subject at ISBNdb.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		The abuse of casuistry: a history of moral reasoning
		Casuistry and modern ethics: a poetics of practical reasoning
	isbndb.com /d/subject/casuistry.html (120 words)

	Adler On Casuistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kant answers the question of whether the onlooker should tell the truth flatly in the affirmative.
		No moral philosophy that does not provide casuistry for finding exceptions to general rules can be sound.
		There are many other reasons for finding fault with the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant, but the dismissal of casuistry is sufficient in itself to challenge the validity of Kantian ethics.
	www.thegreatideas.org /apd-casu.html (436 words)

	The Provincial Health Ethics Network (Alberta, CANADA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jonsen, Albert R. "Casuistry as Methodology in Clinical Ethics" in Theoretical Medicine, Vol.
		Kuczewski, Mark G. "Casuistry and Its Communitarian Critics" in Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol.
		Jonsen, Albert R. "Casuistry: An Alternative or Complement to Principles" in Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol.
	www.phen.ab.ca /articles/articles/PhilEthics-Casuistry.htm (112 words)

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