These subjects have exercised not a little the casuistic talents of the Arab doctors: a folio volume might be filled with differences of opinion on the subject, “Is a blind man sound?
Kutb al-Din (from whom I borrow these particulars) introduces some fine andcasuistic distinctions.
He is a casuistic moralist, if not a Shorter Catechist, as Mr Henley put it in his clever sonnet.
This is the position of the casuistic mystic moralist and not of the man who sees only the visible world.
The casuistic method, or case-system, is the application of moral principles to the solution of concrete problems of lawfulness or unlawfulness.
He had added a volume of Shaaloth-u-Tshuvoth, or "Questions and Answers" to the colossal casuistic literature of his race.
But as the verse is not a legal command, we condemn at once the casuistic sophistry of the legists.
The casuistic sophistry of the canonical legists in deducing these war theories from the Koran is altogether futile.
The elder men paid little heed to their word, but the youths, just fresh from their casuistic studies, which had sharpened their wits and starved their souls, lent a ready ear and an eager heart to the new doctrine.
But, in justice to the casuistic school, which includes many a great name, it is only right to remember that this impartiality towards acknowledged authorities as maintained by our hero is not at all such an easy matter as we imagine.
Again, he possessed so much common-sense that all the intellectual tricks of the casuistic schools did not exist for him.
If the heap of things demanded proved on inspection less chaotic than at first they seemed, if they furnished their own relative test and measure, then the casuistic problem would be solved.
Obligation can thus exist inside a single thinker's consciousness; and perfect peace can abide with him only so far as he lives according to some sort of a casuistic scale which keeps his more imperative goods on top.
If such a thinker existed, his way of subordinating the demands to one another would be the finally valid casuistic scale; his claims would be the most appealing; his ideal universe would be the most inclusive realizable whole.
No single abstract principle can be so used as to yield to the philosopher anything like a scientifically accurate and genuinely useful casuistic scale.
In the casuistic scale, therefore, those ideals must be written highest which prevail at the least cost, or by whose realization the least possible number of other ideals are destroyed.
The philosopher must be a conservative, and in the construction of his casuistic scale must put the things most in accordance with the customs of the community on top.
But this world of ours is made on an entirely different pattern, and the casuisticquestion here is most tragically practical.
As a purely theoretic problem, namely, the casuistic question would hardly ever come up at all.
So far then, and up to date, the casuistic scale is made for the philosopher already far better than he can ever make it for himself.
A casuistic proceeding was necessary as well as a firm union of the bishops as pillars of the Church.
How admirably does Bunyan detect and unravel this casuistic sophistry.
It produces not only a full casuistic but seeks to give some explanation aside from a reference to neurology.
A faithful Mohammedan student, after having struggled through a handbook of law, may be vexed by a doubt as to whether these endless casuistic precepts have been rightly deduced from the Qorân and the Sacred Tradition.
This again gives rise to the danger that he who offers most is attended to first; and that for the liberal rich man a dish is prepared from the casuistic store, as far as possible according to his taste.
The leading feature of the system came more and more to be its casuistic doctrine of duties.
