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casuistry
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casuistry noun behaviorism, deontology, ethical philosophy, ethology, idealism, moral science, perfectionism, sophistry, utilitarianism
See also: duplicity, ethics, sophistry


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All of Naipaul's work is informed by a sense of history; and that it never exhibits commitment to the causes and casuistries of our time.
Evidently, we are living at a time of performing discursive practices, when celebration of residual--by definition, hitherto almost always suppressed--local commonalities, particularities, peculiarities, conflictualities, contingencies, cases, causes, casuistries, of things disruptive and transformative seems to be the (politically correct) order of the day.
In order to survive over any period of time, a religion must develop and maintain rituals, narratives, origin-stories, cultic practices, casuistries and taboos, and figures and institutions of authority.
 
 
 
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