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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.

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]

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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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Sheep and Goat's digestive disorders in northern Paraná were evaluated by a retrospective study of 427 small ruminants treated at the State University of Londrina's Veterinary Hospital (HV-UEL), from January 2006 to December 2015. Analysis of medical records of small ruminants with digestive disorder were performed, determining the occurrence, main clinical signs, established treatments and outcome of cases. Data were tabulated and submitted to a descriptive study of variables, observing frequency distribution (%) of analyzed conditions. Digestive disorders occurs in 38,6% (165/427) of cases in small ruminants at the studied period. Among these diseases, the most common were: hemoncose (27.7%; 53/191), acute rumen lactic acidosis (18.8%; 36/191), eimeriosis (13.6%; 26/191) and simple indigestion (6.8%; 13/191). The increase in sheep and goats' flock in the state of Paraná reiterates the importance of developing studies such as the present study, in order to identify the most frequent diseases and prepare the veterinarian for the correct diagnosis and treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

This thesis focuses on the figure of Fritz Tillmann, who, in the first half of the 20th century, insisted on the idea that the center of morality consists in the following of Christ. To develop this idea, he appropriated the philosophical category of «following», previously elaborated by Max Scheler. Inspired by Scheler's axiology, Tillman connected with the rich theological and mystical tradition contained in the reflection on the «imitation of Christ». With this dynamic category, Tillmann attempted to renew Catholic morality, making it more attractive and avoiding casuistry. Following Christ involves, in the first place, an interior following, something only possible with grace. Therefore, following Christ leads us inexorably to mysticism. In this manner a false conception of morality is avoided, one excessively focused on obligations, on the definition of what is sinful and the determination of types of sin. Tillmann's proposal is not limited to a morality of minimums, since he has in view the call to holiness. Tillmann's manual sowed the seed that later grew and nourished theological reflection in the twentieth century. This path leads to the encyclical Veritatis Splendor of St. John Paul II, in which the Magisterium of the Church explicitly affirms that the following of Christ is the essential and original foundation of Christian morality. With the contribution of the category of «following Christ», Tillmann presents himself as one of the most important innovators of Catholic morality in the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A modern theory of casuistry has not been developed or paid much attention to in legal scholarship in Europe lately, since the partial failure of Viehweg to reintroduce the casuistic (topical) approach in 1950s. Yet, the related problems have not withered away and even today many legal professionals (attorneys and judges alike) still face the same dilemmas as already the medieval confessors and casuists did. This contribution thus ponders upon the question as to whether any new solid theory of legal casuistry - building either on the casuistry employed by theologians and confessors, or casuistry employed nowadays by ethicists, especially in bioethics - can be helpful to modern continental lawyers, who are used rather to systematic instead of casuistic thinking, but still either doubt the one-right-answer theory, or find themselves in a situation of legal uncertainty for whichever reason. [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]

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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]

In this paper I critically examine the implications of the uncodifiability thesis for principlism as a pluralistic and non-absolute generalist ethical theory. In this regard, I begin with a brief overview of W.D. Ross's ethical theory and his focus on general but defeasible prima facie principles before turning to 2) the revival of principlism in contemporary bioethics through the influential work of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress; 3) the widespread adoption of specification as a response to the indeterminacy of abstract general principles and the limitations of balancing and deductive approaches; 4) the challenges raised to fully specified principlism by the uncodifiability thesis and 5) finally offer a defense of the uncodifiability thesis against various critiques that have been raised.

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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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What use does the jurist have for rules and principles? What relation does he or she have to the articulation of facts? This paper considers the position of facts and rules in the casuistry of the Roman jurists. Two textual analyses of the Digest of Justinian are presented: a reading of Digest 9.2.27.12 (a statement by Ulpian on the application of the lex Aquilia to the situation of the burning of some bees) and Digest 45.3.18.2 (a consideration by Papinian of a difficult case concerning the fate of a contract made by a slave while his owner was in captivity). The paper argues that these fragments reveal the craft of the jurist in unexpected ways. What at first appears as the awkwardness of expression in them turns out to disclose a remarkable lucidity. Framed through a reading of the work of Yan Thomas, these fragments provide two nodal points for unveiling the nature of an art that does not ask what law is but seeks to isolate it in its cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is interested in the significance of movies as a specific form of representation in casuistic teacher education: Based on empirical analyses of a movie scene and its perception in student discussions we sound out the relation between the topic framing the discussion - here the demand for inclusion -, the media form of representation of the case, and the modus operandi of the case-based dispute by the university students. The construction of the materiality of the movie and its role for the case-based teacher education yet appear to be little elaborated methodologically. The article outlines this form of representation, also reflecting the question how it can be considered for case-based teacher-training in the context of inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study will analyse the different typologies of usufruct and use included in the regulation of Visigothic Law and in particular with a view to the main legal bodies of the Goths. In them, we observe an evolution from the common point represented by Classic Roman Law until the Legislative texts of the Goths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article suggests that the relationship between conscience and judgment in Émile can be understood within the realm of the late XVIIth century philosophical debates on morals and religion. More specifically, the question is to situate what Rousseau called conscience in the theoretical framework of the discussions shaped, on the one hand, by the transformations of the idea of justice in the history of casuistry, and on the other, by a certain anthropological model that, in the first half of the XVIIIth century, was in agreement with the theoretical needs of the emerging sciences. [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]

In this essay, I argue that an analysis of Maria W. Stewart’s rhetorical choices extends her legacy as an early proponent of the intersectionality of African American female identity. She uses casuistry as defined by Kenneth Burke, dissociation as articulated by Chaim Perelman and applied by Shirley Wilson Logan, and rearticulation as defined by Patricia Hill Collins to confirm herself as sacrificially American through consubstantiation, nobly African by history, and divinely feminine by God. She articulates a Black female consciousness that is empowered to move toward breaking the oppressive conditions of their triple consciousness. Her use of rearticulation to resolve the failures of respectability politics provides relevance for the use of African American feminist theories as a rhetorical technique. [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.