@article{ref1,
title="Casuistry and its communitarian critics",
journal="Kennedy institute of ethics journal",
year="1994",
author="Kuczewski, Mark G.",
volume="4",
number="2",
pages="99-116",
abstract="Communitarian critics have derided case-based reasoning for ignoring the need to arrive at a shared hierarchy of goods prior to case resolution. They claim that such a failure means that casuistry depends on either a naive metaphysical realism or an ethical conventionalism. Casuistry does embrace a certain unobjectionable moral realism and can require appeals to narrative histories, but despite this dependence on the surrounding culture, casuists possess a way to remain critical of society through the concept of practical wisdom and the use of a moral taxonomy. Therefore, casuistry's viability depends upon the existence and employment of this Aristotelian virtue. Furthermore, the casuistry that emerges is a sophisticated type of communitarianism rather than a free-standing method.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1054-6863",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}