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Conscience in making judicial decisions is a particularly complicated phenomenon which requires a special approach. Throughout the centuries moral philosophers and theologians have developed a discipline which deals with description and resolution of cases of conscience, that of casuistry. “The term ‘casuistry’ is derived from casus, Latin for ‘case’ and refers to the study of individual ‘cases of conscience’ in which more than one settled moral principle (or perhaps none) applies. More broadly, casuistry is the use of the ‘method of cases’ in the attempt to bring ethical reflection to bear on problems requiring the decision and action of some moral agent.”1
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Shytov, A.N. (2001). The Method of Casuistry. In: Conscience and Love in Making Judicial Decisions. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9745-6_5
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