Casuists

Casuists decide what to do based on ethics—except they consider the circumstances of each situation before they make their decision.

The Viognier Vendetta Ellen Crosby 2010

Time: But this is one of the finest − spun Snares wherewith the Devil intraps us, when he makes us abandon one Vertue to idolize another: As when the learned Casuists contend for the Faith to the Breach of Charity; and the Enthusiasticks, in their fantastick Raptures, neglect the common

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Time: But this is one of the finest − spun Snares wherewith the Devil intraps us, when he makes us abandon one Vertue to idolize another: As when the learned Casuists contend for the Faith to the Breach of Charity; and the Enthusiasticks, in their fantastick Raptures, neglect the common

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

We are the Casuists of the Paris Bourse, a kind of Inquisition weighing and analyzing the most insignificant actions of every man of any fortune, and our forecasts are infallible.

Gobseck 2007

We are the Casuists of the Paris Bourse, a kind of Inquisition weighing and analyzing the most insignificant actions of every man of any fortune, and our forecasts are infallible.

Gobseck 2007

Casuists and moral theologians have always been interested in the places where medical, legal, and ethical problems meet.

Truth or Consequences Cameron, J.M. 1978

_Church_ has greater Corruption, and the _Theater_ fewer, there can yet be whole Bodies of _Casuists_ found, disallowing the sight of their _Modester Plays_; Methinks it shou'd not be thought an Absurdity here, to go about to disswade so _thoughtful_ a _People_ as we reckon our selves, from going to ours which shew so little of that

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

Casuists, their businesse was not to keepe men from sinning, but to enforme them _Quam prope ad peccatum sine peccato liceat accedere_: so it seemed their worke was to try how much of a Papist might bee brought in without Popery, and to destroy as much as they could of the

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

For when at first discouery of these partes, ye Spaniard did subiect ye Consideration of yt to Casuists, and Confessors, it became so indeterminable, yt he was forced to resolue roundly vpon ye worst way, least he should haue none, to prosecute ye

The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1933

Casuists are not agreed as to the right to give one's life for another's life of equal importance.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913