Ethics
Ethics
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What is done for this one kind of case must be done for every part and phase of the entire moral life until it is all inventoried, cata- logued, and distributed into pigeon-holes definitely labelled. Dangers of Casuistry. — Now dangers and evils attend this way of conceiving the moral life, (a) It tends to magnify the letter of morality at the expense of its spirit. It fixes attention not upon the positive good in an act, not upon the underlying disposition agent which forms its spirit, and upo...n the unique occasion and context which form its atmosphere, but upon its literal conformity with Rule A, Class I. , Species 1, sub-head (1), etc. The effect of this is inevitably to narrow the scope and lessen the depth of conduct, (i. ) It tempts some to hunt for that classification of their act which will make it the most con- venient or profitable for themselves. In popular speech, "casuistical" has come to mean a way of judging acts which splits hairs m the effort to fin, d a way of acting PLACE OF REASON IN MORAL LIFE that conduces to personal interest and profit, and which yet may be justified by some moral principle, (ii.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
What is done for this one kind of case must be done for every part and phase of the entire moral life until it is all inventoried, cata- logued, and distributed into pigeon-holes definitely labelled. Dangers of Casuistry. — Now dangers and evils attend this way of conceiving the moral life, (a) It tends to magnify the letter of morality at the expense of its spirit. It fixes attention not upon the positive good in an act, not upon the underlying disposition agent which forms its spirit, and upo...n the unique occasion and context which form its atmosphere, but upon its literal conformity with Rule A, Class I. , Species 1, sub-head (1), etc. The effect of this is inevitably to narrow the scope and lessen the depth of conduct, (i. ) It tempts some to hunt for that classification of their act which will make it the most con- venient or profitable for themselves. In popular speech, "casuistical" has come to mean a way of judging acts which splits hairs m the effort to fin, d a way of acting PLACE OF REASON IN MORAL LIFE that conduces to personal interest and profit, and which yet may be justified by some moral principle, (ii.
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