(14.) Camille Wells Slights, The
Casuistical Tradition in Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981).
Elly is at this stage of her life too shallow to find
casuistical Roman theology a threat.
The book contains an exhaustive analysis of this phenomenon quoting abundant
casuistical data.
Furthermore, in what sense is it 'philosophical' to trade in assumptions--bordering on the banal, notwithstanding their
casuistical perils--such as 'to be fully natural is to be alive, and to be fully alive is to be awake, living with one's eyes open as it were' (p.
Brown, Meg Lota 1988: "'In that the World's Contracted Thus':
Casuistical Politics in Donne's 'The Sunne Rising.'" "The Muses Common-Weale": Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century.
(Something like this move can also be found in O'Neil 1989, 87, where "specific intentions" turn out to be "ancillary to more fundamental intentions or principles that might indeed have revealed moral unworthiness in the agent.") However, perhaps maxim hierarchies do not solve the Problem of Relevant Descriptions on their own: for all it has been argued, an agent could be thoroughly perverse, all the way up his
casuistical hierarchy, in a manner that would slip through the CI-procedure.
I hope that a careful,
casuistical analysis of the scenario will illuminate both the possibilities and the values of acts of vicarious sacrificial atonement.
Above all, she proposes, and advocates, a specific alternate approach that she thinks the courts should adopt in dealing with these matters, terming it "
casuistical free exercise jurisprudence." So if this study is narrow in one sense, it is also, in another, highly ambitious, aspiring to have wide influence.
The courts object, but, unable to find constitutional problems with the statutes, they rely on
casuistical extensions of fraud doctrine and loudly proclaim the debtor's greed.