If this isn't deliberate casuistry, it is at the very least severely myopic. |
It has the ring of casuistry, of the often hypocritical moralist who declares unctuously that, while he hates the sin, he loves the sinner. |
When that logic is exposed, as in this case, as intellectual legerdemain, he retreats to pitiful, pleading casuistry. |
In 1656 his Provincial Letters decried the abuse of casuistry by Jesuits in Paris. |
Medieval scholasticism has continued to fuel contemporary debates on euthanasia and abortion and it has helped revive casuistry. |
And he finishes with the sort of depraved casuistry he is always so eager to spot in his opponents. |