casuistically

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Using casuistry or casuistics.

   • He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles.
2. 2

   From the perspective of casuistics or casuistry.

   • Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed.
   • Rule-utilitarian arguments — arguments that proceed from the consequences of our moral rules rather than of our individual acts — are casuistically very powerful.
   • She would then be — casuistically, I suppose, and legally, without doubt — worse off than the seduced Isabella: for Isabella would have submitted to Angelo without consent of the will

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