casuistry

1 To defend its many puerilities, and even immoral tales, men have resorted to casuistry and dissimulation.

2 By what species of casuistry does any person think it possible to put this forward as sane public policy?

3 A little reflection will show that the divisions of later law did not spring into being merely as results of legal reasoning and casuistry.

4 With this fine weapon, in great part, it was, wielded like a magician’s invisible wand, that Pascal did his memorable execution on the Jesuitical system of morals and casuistry, in the “Provincial Letters.”

5 Such subterfuges show a measure of sensibility, for a hardened liar would despise the shifts, and are curious as illustrations of the childish conscience and its unlearnt casuistry.

6 And with malicious irony he said: "And I also learnt there a little of that spirit of Jesuit casuistry, which is a force not to be despised in the struggle with other people."

7 He admired the logical penetration of Pascal, his rigidity of thought, his unalterable ideal of duty, more than the easy-going casuistry of his opponents.

8 The question of infantile communion affords an illustration of the skilful casuistry of the orthodox.

9 But, amusing as it is, it shows into what depths of puerility the amorous casuistry of these romances had fallen.

10 The Jesuit’s casuistry, which went to prove that all sorts of evil things might under certain circumstances and under such and such restrictions become actual virtues, was swept away by Pascal’s clear-sighted common sense.

11 I had plenty of such casuistry as this ready, had you asked for it.

12 Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry.

对所有生灵无尽的同情，是一个人的行为纯粹合乎道德的最可靠、最被期许的证明，并且不需要辩解。

13 But again his conscience told him next moment that such casuistry was dishonest and unworthy; he had found the thing, and, come what might, he ought to abide by the awful consequences.

14 As often as she found herself confronted with these thoughts, Charlotte took refuge in a bit of casuistry.

15 In tracing the development of casuistry we have been carried beyond the great crisis through which Western Christianity passed in the 16th century.

16 It probably hasn’t been easy to engage in the political casuistry needed to simultaneously reject and embrace Mr. Trump.

17 On a "bottom up" alternative drawn from Medieval casuistry, it is richly described paradigm cases, not principles, that have the central role in moral reasoning.

一项来自于中世纪决疑法，自下而上的研究方案指出，道德推理的核心是那些详尽描述的范例，而非原则。

18 Ironically, he cited the phrase “Jesuitical casuistry” in his argument, apparently unaware that he was employing it.

19 Hill's casuistry is all too common in memoirs written by or for statesmen seeking to sanitize their own blunders and lies.

20 Some modern authors, confining themselves to casuistry, speak almost exclusively of the perfection of actions, a method less logical and less thorough.

1 牵强附会

sophisticated strained labored sophistication sophistry by the head and ears

2 诡辩

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3 诡辩术

sophistry

4 曲解

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5 决疑论

casuistic casuistics