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"Casuistry, the practice of resolving moral problems by applying a logical framework, has had a much larger historical presence before and since it was given a name in the Renaissance. The contributors to this volume examine a series of case studies to explain how different cultures and religions, past and present, have wrestled with morality's exceptions and margins and the norms with which they break. For example, to what extent have the Islamic and Judaic traditions allowed smoking tobacco or gambling? How did the Spanish colonization of America generate formal justifications for what it claimed? Where were the lines of transgression around food, money-lending, and sex in Ancient Greece and Rome? How have different systems dealt with suicide? Casuistry lives at the heart of such questions, in the tension between norms and exceptions, between what seems forbidden but is not. A Historical Approach to Casuistry does not only examine this tension, but re-frames casuistry as a global phenomenon that has informed ethical and religious traditions for millennia, and that continues to influence our lives today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Casuistry --- History, Ancient. --- Middle Ages. --- Judaism. --- Islam. --- History.

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Doing harm seems much harder to justify than merely allowing harm. If a boulder is rushing towards Bob, you may refuse to save Bob's life by driving your car into the path of the boulder if doing so would cost you your own life. You may not push the boulder towards Bob to save your own life. This principle--the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing--requires defence. Does the distinction between doing and allowing fall apart under scrutiny? When lives are at stake, how canit matter whether harm is done or allowed? Drawing on detailed analysis of the distinction between doing and allowing, Fiona Wooll

Responsibility. --- Applied ethics. --- Practical ethics --- Ethics --- Casuistry --- Ethical problems --- Accountability --- Moral responsibility --- Obligation --- Supererogation

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It is no accident that some variation of the question 'What should I do?' appears in over three-quarters of the comedic plays of the Spanish Golden Age. Casuistical dialogue was a concern, even an obsession, of Spanish playwrights during the seventeenth century, many of whom were educated by Jesuit casuists. Conscience on Stage is a study of casuistry or case morality as the foundation for a poetics of seventeenth-century Spanish comedias.Hilaire Kallendorf examines the Jesuit upbringing and casuistical education of major playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, many of whom were also priests, and introduces the vocabulary of casuistry, as expressed in both confessors' manuals and in stage plays. Engaging issues of class, gender, and age to explore scenes of advice-giving and receiving, she demonstrates how the culture-specific construct of 'conscience' in early modern Spain can be recovered by means of a Foucauldian genealogy, which enlists the skills of philology at the service of a larger vision of the history of ideas. This study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish literary theory and practice, and the importance of casuistry for the study of early modern subjectivity.

Spanish drama (Comedy) --- Spanish drama --- Christianity in literature. --- Casuistry in literature. --- Casuistry. --- Conscience in literature. --- Confession in literature. --- Confession (Liturgy) --- Penitential celebrations --- Penitential rites --- Cases of conscience --- Christian ethics --- Ethics --- Scholasticism --- Applied ethics --- History and criticism. --- Catholic Church --- History

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The pervasiveness of Protestant natural law in the early modern period and its significance in the Scottish Enlightenment have long been recognised. This book reveals that Thomas Reid (1710-1796) - the great contemporary of David Hume and Adam Smith - also worked in this tradition. When Reid succeeded Adam Smith as professor of moral philosophy in Glasgow in 1764, he taught a course covering pneumatology, practical ethics, and politics. This section on practical ethics took its starting point from the system of natural law and rights published by Francis Hutcheson. Knud Haakonssen has reconstr

Applied ethics. --- Practical ethics --- Ethics --- Casuistry --- Ethical problems --- Reid, Thomas, --- Jui-te, Tʻo-ma-ssu, --- Applied ethics --- General ethics --- Reid, Thomas

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Qu’est-ce que penser par cas ? Comment raisonne-t-on à partir de la description de configurations singulières et dans quelle mesure peut‑on prétendre généraliser à partir d’elles ? Le problème n’est pas nouveau. Les casuistiques morales, religieuses, juridiques, la démarche clinique associée à la tradition médicale en sont autant d’exemples attestés dans le long terme. De façons diverses, ces formes anciennes illustrent une voie qui diffère à la fois des déductions formellement nécessaires et de l’expérimentation qui procède par réitération des observations dans des conditions contrôlées. Longtemps délaissée, cette réflexion trouve aujourd’hui sa pertinence. Avec l’usure des grands paradigmes naturalistes ou logicistes, le souci d’une interprétation circonstanciée des singularités a étendu ses effets méthodologiques à la plupart des sciences de l’homme, parfois au-delà d’elles. Il impose d’associer la particularisation des énoncés aux changements de contextes sur lesquels doit statuer la pensée par cas. Il rappelle l’implication réciproque entre l’articulation d’une théorie et la stratégie d’une enquête.

History as a science --- Case-based reasoning --- Case method --- Casuistry --- Raisonnement par cas --- Cas, Méthode des --- Casuistique --- Sciences sociales --- Méthodologie --- Cas, Méthode des --- Cas, Méthode des. --- Casuistique. --- Méthodologie. --- Sciences sociales - Méthodologie --- Acqui 2006 --- Cas, Méthode des. --- Casuistry. --- Méthodologie. --- Methode de cas --- Social sciences --- Paradigms (Social sciences) --- Abduction (Logic)