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Building upon prior analyses of casuistry’s normativity and use of analogy, this reading examines casuistry’s orientation to moral principles and explains how casuistry, when it incorporates moral rules at all, does so indirectly, subtly, and alongside other normative criteria.
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(Wilde 2005, p. 12). The full quote is: Algernon. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be verytedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!.
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Hermeneutics is the art and science of text interpretation, usually that of Scripture.
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Jonsen admits that principles might be used as a sort of last recourse. (Jonsen 1995, p. 246).
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Calkins, M. (2014). The Role of Principles in Casuistry. In: Developing a Virtue-Imbued Casuistry for Business Ethics. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8724-6_4
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