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'''Casuistry''' is the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; [[sophistry]].
'''Casuistry''' is most commonly interpreted as the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions. More neutrally it is the primary characteristic of any carefully reasoned argument which can be either licit or illicit, proper or improper, sincere or insincere, depending on the motive of the one presenting the argument. Casuisty is most often used by members of school debating societies or clubs, by lawyers, politicians and lawmakers, promoters, salesmen and advertising agencies.
The Greek [[Philosophy|philosopher]] [[Plato]], in his ''Dialogues'', warned against the casuistry of the [[Sophistry|Sophists]].
In the [[New Testament]], the Jews are often seen as using casuistical arguments against Jesus as a means of accusing him of violating the [[Torah]] of [[Moses]], and of bringing him before the Roman procurator [[Pontius Pilate]] to be condemned to death as a fomenter of [[Insurgency|rebellion]] against Rome.
In the arguments generated by [[Heresy|heresies]] throughout the history of [[Christianity]], by the [[Great Schism]] of 1054 which divided Rome and Constantinople, the East and the West, and in particular those arguments raised in the 16th century by the controversy of the [[Protestant Reformation]], both [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] and [[Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] and Protestant [[Apologetics|apologists]] in their debates accused each other of using casuistry prompted by the [[Satan|Devil]].
The disciples of [[Karl Marx]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] and [[Immanuel Kant]] use casuistry in their arguments against [[theism]] and [[reason]].
The casuistry of [[Relativism]] which infects and pervades the majority of [[Public education]] and of [[secular]] [[culture]] is responsible for the [[Enmity|hostile rejection]] and [[ridicule]] of the fundamental principle of objective [[morality]], and in particular the [[Ten Commandments]].
==See also==
==See also==
[[Specious reasoning]]<br>[[Pilpul]]
[[Specious reasoning]]<br>[[Pilpul]]<br>[[Rhetoric]]<br>[[Deceit]]<br>[[Philosophical naturalism]]<br>[[Natural Law]]
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