Casuists Sentence Examples

It is not unlike the procedure of the canonists and casuists of the middle ages with regard to the doctrine of usury, by which the doctrine was to all appearances preserved intact while in reality it was stripped of all its original meaning by innumerable distinctions " over-curious and precise."

Compare the fine distinctions drawn by the casuists and attacked by Pascal in the twelfth of the Provincial Letters.

These deal with the casuists of the Counter - Reformation in the spirit of Milton, laying especial stress on the artificiality of their methods and the laxity of their results.

Thus caught between two fires the casuists developed a highly ingenious method, not unlike that of the Roman Stoics, for eviscerating the substance of a rule while leaving its shadow carefully intact.

Conscience is the best of casuists; it is only when men wish to cheat it that they fly to logical quibbles."

The Anglican casuists are discussed in Whewell, Lectures on Moral Philosophy (London, 1862).

Like all casuists, he took for granted that morality was a recondite science, beyond the reach of all but the learned.

Suppose, for instance, that some casuists held it wrong to dance on Sunday, while others held it perfectly lawful.

Experts proverbially differ, and the casuists were no exceptions to the rule.

Scholasticism, while reviving philosophy as a handmaid to theology, had metamorphosed its method into one resembling that of its mistress; thus shackling the renascent intellectual 2 As the chief English casuists we may mention Perkins, Hall,.

Probabiliorists maintained that the more general opinion ought to prevail, irrespectively of whether it was the stricter or the laxer; dancing on Sunday was perfectly lawful, if the majority of casuists approved it.

However much they might personally disapprove, ' zealous priests could not forbid their parishioners to dance on Sunday, if the practice had won widespread toleration; on the other hand, they could not relax the usual discipline of the church on the strength of a few unguarded opinions of too indulgent casuists.