In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its subsequent fall into disrepute from the mid-seventeenth century.
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"The authors meticulously outline the first methodological structure of casuistry. This contribution alone certainly ranks it among the works on prudence by earlier continental writers like Demain, Lottin and Capone." -- James F. Keenan, S. J., Theological Studies
"The authors' theoretical points are important and will repay careful consideration. . . . A fascinating introduction to the work of philosophers and theologians whose work, in the authors' opinion and in mine, has suffered a long and unjustified obscurity." -- Kenneth W. Kemp, Ethics
"This is a path-breaking examination of the history of ethical case analysis." -- Steven H. Miles, Journal of the American Medical Association
"The authors' theoretical points are important and will repay careful consideration. . . . A fascinating introduction to the work of philosophers and theologians whose work, in the authors' opinion and in mine, has suffered a long and unjustified obscurity." -- Kenneth W. Kemp, Ethics
"This is a path-breaking examination of the history of ethical case analysis." -- Steven H. Miles, Journal of the American Medical Association
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"The book will lead to a reinterpretation of the history of western morals. . . . It's an excellent book."--Baruch A. Brody, Baylor College of Medicine
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This is a thorough and challenging intellectual history of a form of ethical reasoning excoriated since the 17th century, only to emerge in the 20th as a principal method of analyzing contemporary ethical problems. It is an excellent and even necessary foundation for ethicists.
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If asked to provide two bookends to a theology/philosophy library, my choices would be David Tracy's Blessed Rage for Order and this book, The Abuse of Casuistry. The former provides contemporaneous structure and language to the general propositions of the subject, this book obtains practical meaning (meaningfulness)from the individual case. Jonsen/Toulmin is a tour de force in a subject so laden with cliches (how many modern reader have read the Provincial Letters?) and "Enlightenment" baggage (this is the one we kept out of assorted discarded myths of the universal) that just reading it constitutes an act of intellectual rebellion. Henceforth, we are all casuists (not that we ever stopped being casuists, as the well developed narrative and examples point out)and informed at at...despite our pining for absolute platitudes..
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- The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal on 23 pages
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 13 pages
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on 7 pages
- Medieval Handbooks of Penance by John McNeill in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Idea of Usury by Benjamin Nelson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Context of Casuistry (Moral Traditions series) by James F. Keenan on 6 pages
- Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia (Studies in Comparative Religion) by Jonathan E. Brockopp on page 18, page 50, and Back Matter
- Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Research with Human Subjects by James F. Childress on page 76, page 133, and page 202
- The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Michael E. Lynch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction by Susan M. Wolf on page 63, page 89, and page 113
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