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Aus juristischer Perspektive sind Max Webers Idealtypen des vom Systemgedanken geprägten kontinentaleuropäischen Rechtsdenkens und der eher kasuistisch vorgehenden angelsächsischen Praxis hilfreich. Sie können in eine interne Sprache, wie sie die juristischen Methodenlehren verwenden, übersetzt werden. Auch können die jeweiligen Vor- und Nachteile der beiden Vorgehensweisen kombiniert werden, um am Ende eine systematische und kasuistisch ausgearbeitete Rechtspraxis zu gewährleisten. Doch nur wenige Rechtswissenschaftler rezipierten zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts Max Weber. Eine bemerkenswerte Ausnahme bildeten die zeitgenössischen Vertreter des sog. Freirechts, insbesondere H. Kantorowicz. Er sah die Vorzüge einer extern beobachtenden soziologischen Methode und entwickelte eine trialistische Methodologie, wonach die jeweilige juristische Dogmatik intern den Sinn der Gesetze festlegt, während Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtssoziologie extern beobachten. Die Rechtsphilosophie sollte werturteilsfrei die verschiedenen Haltungen darstellen und die unterschiedlichen normativen Bewertungen systematisch vergleichen. System und Kasuistik sind danach die beiden grundlegenden Kategorien der Jurisprudenz. Systematisierung ist die Basis, aber aus dem jeweiligen System folgt nicht die praktische Entscheidung. Sie haben letztlich einen theoretisch nicht determinierbaren dezisionistischen Anteil. Wegen dieser Erkenntnis wurde Kantorowicz und seine relativistische Rechtstheorie heftig kritisiert. Ihre Vertreter wurden als „Freirechtler" disziplinär ausgegrenzt. Diese hartnäckige Ablehnung des letztlich dezisionistischen Charakters der Rechtspraxis, die auch in der kontinentalen Rechtskultur unvermeidbar ist, erschwerte eine offene Beschäftigung mit Max Webers rechtssoziologischen Schriften und erklärt auch, wieso die Max Weber-Forschung eine Domäne der Soziologie ist. From a legal perspective, Max Weber's ideal types of continental European legal thinking, which is characterised by systemic thinking, and the more casuistic approach of Anglo-Saxon practice are helpful. They can be translated into the internal language used by legal methodologies. The respective advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches can also be combined to ensure a systematic and casuistic legal practice in the end. However, only a few legal scholars at the beginning of the 20th century took Max Weber on board. The contemporary representatives of so-called free law, in particular H. Kantorowicz, were a notable exception. He saw the advantages of an externally observing sociological method and developed a trialist methodology, according to which the respective legal dogmatics determined the meaning of the laws internally, while legal history and legal sociology observed externally. The philosophy of law should present the different attitudes without value judgement and systematically compare the different normative assessments. System and casuistry are then the two fundamental categories of jurisprudence. Systematisation is the basis, but the practical decision does not follow from the respective system. Ultimately, they have a theoretically indeterminable, decisionistic component. Kantorowicz and his relativist theory of law were heavily criticised for this insight. Its representatives were ostracised as "free lawyers". This stubborn rejection of the ultimately decisionist character of legal practice, which is also unavoidable in continental legal culture, made it difficult to engage openly with Max Weber's sociological writings on law and also explains why research on Max Weber remains the domain of sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do institutions think about change? Building on Mary Douglas's famous contention that institutions think by means of analogy, we suggest that institutions think about change by means of irony. Irony is pronounced during times of profound change when the rhetoric and the reality of change can be inconsistent. We show that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has enacted what we term loosely coupled change—change in which symbolic meanings and material practices are only weakly connected and retain their independence. The CCP employed the rhetorical form of irony, known as casuistry, to legitimize a change to market systems as being incremental while in practice radically adopting market systems and dismantling socialist practices. We contribute to research on institutional messaging by examining the hermeneutic depth of casuistry. We also contribute to research on organizational change by explicating how casuistry reconciles contradictory ideologies and facilitates loosely coupled change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Coercive measures to protect public health are controversial, eliciting questions regarding state-patient relationships and conflicts between individual autonomy and public good. This is challenging in a time when respect for patient autonomy has become elevated yet society faces an increasing number of public health challenges, the most recent being the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). In that context, there is emphasis on increasing vaccination rates internationally in order to achieve "herd immunity", raising the possibility of compulsory vaccination of populations in the future. Here, we explore current rights of individuals to decline vaccination, utilising prior learning from other viral pathogens internationally (specifically, measles, mumps and rubella), and related public health outcomes. Further, we consider freedom of choice versus mandatory treatment necessitated to avoid contagion during disease outbreaks (such as COVID-19). In doing so, we utilise rhetorical reasoning in the form of casuistry focusing on the core challenges regarding public good versus personal antipathy towards vaccination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Holy Scriptures can be considered a specific kind of normative texts, whose use to assess practical moral cases requires interpretation. In the field of ethics, this interpretative problem results in the necessity of bridging the gap between the normative source – moral precepts – and the specific cases. In the history of the Church, this problem was the core of the so-called casuistry, namely the decision-making practice consisting in applying the Commandments and other principles of the Holy Scriptures to specific cases or moral problems. By taking into account the sin of lying, this paper argues that casuistic texts reveal an extremely sophisticated interpretative method, grounded on "pragmatic" contextual and communicative considerations and argumentative structures that resemble the ones used in legal interpretation. These works show how the underspecified biblical text expressing an abstract norm was enriched pragmatically by completing it and modulating its meaning so that it could be used to draw a conclusion in a specific context on a specific case. The mutual interdependence between biblical interpretation, pragmatics, and argumentation sheds light on a much broader phenomenon, namely the pragmatic nature of argumentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Citizen science (CS) has been presented as a novel form of research relevant for social concerns and global challenges. CS transforms the roles of participants to being actively involved at various stages of research processes, CS projects are dynamic, and pluralism arises when many non-professional researchers take an active involvement in research. Some argue that these elements all make existing research ethical principles and regulations ill-suited for guiding responsible CS conduct. However, while many have sought to highlight such challenges from CS, few have discussed principles per se providing the foundation for regulations. In this article we will investigate the possibilities of midlevel principlism in guiding responsible CS conduct. Principlism has the potential of accommodating many of the concerns taken to reduce the relevance of existing principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines how Catholic moral theologians analysed the constraints imposed by the rights of the dead to their good name on historical writing and research. The concern of Catholic moral theologians for persons' rights to their good name coupled with their concern for the rights of dead persons placed serious moral constraints on the work of historians. At the same time, from very early on, these moral theologians showed appreciation of the benefits of historical writing, including writing on the less public aspects of historical figures. The general tendency was to allow historians some moral elbow room. There was, however, a clear red line: what was and had always been secret could not be revealed, regardless of the benefits. By the end of the nineteenth century, the authors of the casuist manualists revised the traditional doctrine and removed the moral red line that had been accepted until then. Historians could now reveal what had always been secret. This doctrinal development was the result of two historical events: the opening of the Vatican Archives and allowing propagandists and journalists within politically organized Catholic conservatism to fight as equals in the printed media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Estebanillo González is the last Spanish picaresque novel, but its eponymous protagonist rarely features in the discussions on the genre in the way other male characters, Lazarillo, Guzmán or Pablos do. In this article, drawing on earlier literary criticism and historical research concerning religious diasporas in Early Modern Europe, I offer a new analysis of the protagonist's possible converso origins. The protagonist's attitude towards his alleged hidalguía questions the relevance of social status. In the second part of the article, I argue that behind the protagonist's jokes and puns hides religious scepticism aimed in particular at Counter-Reformation techniques of casuistry. Both hidalguía and Catholic practices, fundamental aspects of Spanish society, are therefore undermined. Estebanillo, as the last picaro, offers his own original vision of the self in the world and as such should join the picaresque trio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Medical use of prescription opioids has steadily increased since the 1990s, particularly in the U.S.A. and Canada, along with abuse of these substances and significant increases in rates of addiction and death related to prescription opioids. The American authorities speak of an "addiction epidemic" and are launching a series of countermeasures to better address the problem. In Europe, there is an increasing use of prescription opioids and related problems, but the European context is much less dramatic than the American and Canadian ones. Nevertheless, based on the data, it cannot be ruled out that a similar crisis will occur on the Old Continent. The aim of this study is to analyze the Italian context to better understand whether there is a possibility of an addiction epidemic. Twenty-four cases of death of people under treatment with prescription opioids have been retrospectively analyzed. Toxicological samples were collected with routine methods during the autopsy, followed by systematic screening for substances by diverse methods. Volatile compounds were identified using gas chromatography-flame ionization detection (GC-FID). Medical drugs and drugs of abuse were identified via the use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS). Of a total of 24 subjects, 14 died due to an overdose of Tramadol, while 7 died due to an overdose of Buprenorphine and 3 dues to a Fentanyl overdose. The most used drug was Tramadol. Histological examination was performed with hematoxylin/eosin staining, though no significant findings emerged apart from widespread edema and focal sclerosis of the myocardium, and interstitial and alveolar edema of the lungs. Our data show that attention must be paid to prescription opioids. European institutions, as soon as possible, must implement preventive measures that avoid the recurrence of the North American situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this Philological Conversation , Carlo Ginzburg reflects on the place of philology in his work and explores the connections between philology, microhistory, and casuistry. We talk about the people who inspired his early thinking, including his father Leone Ginzburg, his mother Natalia, and his grandfather, moving on to Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer, and Sebastiano Timpanaro. We discuss the ethical and political implications of his research and reflect on the power of philology to give voice to the marginalized and suppressed. The conversation, which was edited for readability, took place during the Corona pandemic over three meetings via Zoom on July 13, September 10, and September 17, 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interest in the role of casuistry and casuistical questions in Kant's Doctrine of Virtue (DV), i.e. the second part of the Metaphysics of Morals, has grown in recent years. My own position is formulated in Schuessler (2012, in German), the main thesis of which will be retained here in an updated form and with some shifts of emphasis. I hold that the casuistical questions concerning perfect duties in the DV are not intended to represent casuistry in Kant's sense. Casuistry and casuistical questions are neither equivalent in the DV nor do they serve the same purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Although the theological contexts of St. Alphonsus de Liguori and Pope Francis are very different in both their historical and methodological aspects, they have been following a down-to-earth, person-centred approach in proposing moral solutions to pastoral issues. While for both of them general moral norms are indispensable indicators of objective morality it is the conscience of persons (informed by those moral norms) in their proper contexts that has the ultimate priority in arriving at moral solutions. The common hermeneutical key to their respective pastoral/moral approaches is to take the moral agent in his/her lived context seriously. Consequently, one cannot expect the same uniform pastoral solution to moral cases in diverse contexts. After all, moral theology is not a deductive science such as mathematics or logic. This article tries to highlight this point (which has been either forgotten or ignored by quite a number of contemporary moral theologians) by using a few selected teachings of St. Alphonsus in his Theologia Moralis along with those of Pope Francis in Amoris laetitia, concluding that the latter is a re-echoing of the pastoral/moral spirit of the former. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Parts 1 and 2 in this series of three articles have shown that and how strong evidence‐based medicine has neither a coherent theoretical foundation nor creditable application to clinical practice. Because of its core commitment to the discredited positivist tradition it holds both a false concept of scientific knowledge and misunderstandings concerning clinical decision‐making. Strong EBM continues attempts to use flawed adjustments to recover from the unsalvageable base view. Paper three argues that a promising solution is at hand if we can manage several modes of inclusion. A modified original, moderate version of EBM continues though usually overshadowed. As definitively laid out by Sackett in the 1990s, clinical decision making is intended to be person‐centered, recognizing and integrating multiple modes of evidence and knowledge that have been marginalized: professional experience, illness narratives, and individual patients' values and preferences. Complementary resources are at hand: interpretative understanding and practice, such as philosophical anthropology, hermeneutical phenomenology, complexity theory, and phronetic practices respond to the major problems and open new possibilities. Phronesis is especially important in regard to public decision making. Within part 3 an additional tone necessarily occurs. While most of papers 1, 2, and 3 are written in the classical mode of contrasting the theoretical‐logical and empirical evidence offered by contending positions bearing on the decision making and judgement in clinical practice, a shift occurs when considerations move beyond what is possible for clinical practitioners to accomplish. A different, discontinuous level of power operates in the trans‐personal realm of instrumental policy, insurance, and hospital management practices. In this social‐economic‐political‐ethical realm what happens in clinical practice today increasingly becomes a matter of what is "done unto" clinical practitioners, of what hampers their professional action and thus care of individual patients and clients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A critical assessment of Bishop Kenneth Kirk's classic book The Vision of God and its reception within, and influence upon, Anglican moral theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on impact of globalization processes on culture such as economy, moral ethoses and labor market and mentions ethical concept against the threat of casuistry. Topics discussed include paradox of universality and diversity , globalization bounded with processes of assimilation and cultural homogenization and prescriptivism applicable to basic values.

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Recent debates in urban theory have centred on the problem of whether universal concepts can have applications to particular places. These debates could benefit from more serious attention to how urban thought involves styles of analogical reasoning closer in spirit to casuistry than to explanatory theory. The difficult status of 'the case' in urban studies is explored through a consideration of different types of universality in this field, leading to a re-consideration of ideas of experimentalism and wicked problems. Further attention should be given to the multiple styles of reasoning through which urban knowledge is produced and circulated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is dedicated to the application questions of a case study method known as casuistry. In its long tradition, it focuses on an influential variant of the early modern period and reconstructs its functionality. In the course of reading recent receptions, it is noted that some studies speak of a "casuistic revival" in moral case deliberation in health care. As a result of this revival, casuistry has been modified in such a way that it guides case discussions in practice with the help of a tripartite methodology (morphology, taxonomy, and kinetics). However, as it turns out, casuistry, a case comparison method of ethical judgement based on reasoning logic, is less suitable for moral case deliberations in direct patient care. This stems from the fact that casuistry is a detailed procedure of ethical learning beneficial to institutionalized ethics committees or similar forms of ethics consultation in health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conciliationist and steadfast approaches have dominated the conversation in the epistemology of disagreement. In this paper, drawing on Jennifer Lackey's justificationist approach and the casuistry paradigm in medical ethics, I will develop a more contextual epistemology of political disagreement. On this account, a given political disagreement's scope, domain, genealogy, and consequence can be helpful for determining whether we should respond to that disagreement at the level of our confidence, beliefs, or with policy. Though some may argue that responding with policy is a practical consideration instead of an epistemic matter, I argue that even policy responses to disagreements have an epistemic dimension to them that we should not ignore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper I lay out the bare bones of my conception of practical reasoning, which I understand as similar in all relevant respects to theoretical reasoning except that (as it is put) the conclusion of practical reasoning is either action or intention, while the conclusion of theoretical reasoning is belief. I then turn to ask how, on this conception, moral education is possible—understanding moral education as more practical than theoretical. We want people to do the right things, not just to believe that they ought to do them. But the first task is to identify the right thing to do and this requires practical reasoning since it involves tracing reasons to act in one way rather than another, the right act being the one there is most reason (of a certain sort) to do. I maintain that a certain form of casuistry can take people who already have some competence with the notion of a reason and enable them to develop that competence by a process of explicit questioning, without our needing to see this process as a form of indoctrination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a hitherto unknown document relating to Robert Boyle's concern with casuistry, in other words, with the analysis of matters on his conscience. It comprises an autograph manuscript that Boyle submitted to his casuistical mentor, Thomas Barlow, which is here published in full, and both this and Barlow's response are discussed in the course of the article. The opportunity is also taken to provide a more general assessment of Boyle's casuistical concerns and their significance, drawing on Boyle's contact in this connection not only with Barlow, but also with two other prominent ecclesiastics, Edward Stillingfleet and Gilbert Burnet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joseph Hall's cases of conscience treatise, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall Cases of Conscience, is noteworthy in its genre for its interaction with early-modern Continental Roman Catholics and their treatises De iustitia et iure. Hall's reading of the Jesuit theologian Leonardus Lessius, in particular, illustrates a significant avenue of the English Protestant reception not only of Continental Catholic casuistry, but of the insights of late-scholastic Roman Catholic economic thought. Hall's work also illustrates that, not withstanding their polemical rhetoric against the Jesuits, some English Protestants were not only reading Jesuit moral texts, but were willing to adapt and adopt ideas from their arch theological opponents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article was written in response to a paper titled "Is Philosophy Relevant to Applied Ethics," by Richard Rorty. The author discusses the connection between philosophy and business ethics. The author asserts that ethics has always been a practical subject and that ethics is an attempt to comprehend our individual and collective moral experience. The author also examines the development of applied ethics, and how it has led to a renewal of interest in using casuitry to solve moral problems and dilemmas.

Martin Calkins proposes the "combined use of casuistry and virtue ethics as a way for both sides to move ahead on [the] pressing issue [of agricultural biotechnology]." However, his defense of this methodology relies on a set of mistaken, albeit familiar, claims regarding the normative resources of virtue ethics: (1) virtue ethics is egoistic; (2) virtue ethics cannot defend any particular account of the virtues as the objectively correct ones and is therefore inextricably relativistic; (3) virtue ethics cannot supply a procedure for providing practical or policy guidance in concrete situations; and (4) virtue ethics cannot adequately account for the possibility of conflicting or partial virtues. After a brief overview of the basic structure of virtue ethics, I take up each of these misconceptions in turn. I conclude with some comments on the implications of these considerations for Calkins's proposed methodology for addressing the issue of agricultural biotechnology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues for the compatibility of casuistry and the business case method. It describes the salient features of casuistry and the case method, shows how the two methods are similar yet different, and suggests how elements of casuistry might benefit the use of the case method in management education. Toward these ends, it shows how casuistry and the case method are both inductive and practical methods of reasoning focussed on single settings and real-life situations and how both methods stress that real-life decision making is not the exclusive domain of experts. It also shows how casuistry and the case method are not identical processes but have different purposes and emphasize order and problem-resolution differently. In the end, Casuistry and the Business Case Method suggests that, despite their differences, casuistry and the case method might be brought together to benefit business management and the field of business ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Water authorities search for new collaborations with non-governmental actors, with the aim of facilitating societal initiatives. A comparative case study was conducted to analyze the value dilemmas faced by water authorities when they choose to facilitate and how they cope with these dilemmas. The study found that the most prevalent dilemma is between traditional democratic values and efficiency-related values. In the chosen solutions, the latter seem to prevail over the former. Casuistry, cycling and hybridization are common coping mechanisms. The study shows the potential of non-governmental initiatives in the water sector while also reflecting critically on dominant administrative values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Anglican moralist Kenneth Kirk is an early twentieth-century forerunner of Catholic revisionism. Kirk critiques the moral manuals and defends a historicist, biblically grounded virtue ethic forty years prior to Catholic figures like Bernard Häring. Kirk also utilizes inductive casuistry in analyzing concrete cases to the end of promoting Christian freedom and mature Christlike character. For these reasons his moral theology has historical and ecumenical importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We describe the Catholic natural law tradition by examining its origins in the medieval penitentials, the papal decretals, the writings of Thomas Aquinas, and seventeenth century casuistry. Catholic natural law emerges as a flexible ethic that conceives of human nature as rational and as oriented to certain basic goods that ought to be pursued and whose pursuit is made possible by the virtues. We then identify four approaches to natural law that have evolved within the United States during the twentieth century, including the traditionalist, proportionalist, right reason, and historicist approaches. The normative implications of these approaches are discussed in relation to ethical issues in the tobacco industry, ITT under Geneen, the marketing of Pharmaceuticals, affirmative action, and bribery. It is argued that Alasdair Maclntyre is correct in claiming that the natural law tradition is superior to the liberal ethics of modern deontology and utilitarianism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a critique of an essay by Peter F. Drucker titled "What is 'Business Ethics'?" which appeared in the Spring, 1981 issue of the journal "The Public Interest." Drucker's condemnation of what he viewed as casuistry is discussed and a refutation is offered which uses a study of the ethical policies of the Cummins Engine Company as a source of examples. Philosophical perspectives on virtue and obligation are analyzed and it is said that an ethics of character is an effective approach to moral dilemmas.

The Ethics of Technology: A Geometric Analysis of Five Moral Principles proposes five moral principles for analyzing ethical issues related to engineering and technology. The objections raised by several authors to the multidimensional scaling technique used in the book reveal a lack of familiarity with this widely used technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]