noun
casuistry
A technical term in ethics and theology referring to case-based moral reasoning, often used to resolve dilemmas by applying general principles to particular cases.
決疑論は、具体的な倫理的ジレンマを解決するための方法論として研究されている。
Casuistry is studied as a methodology for resolving concrete ethical dilemmas.
道徳神学 is moral theology, within which casuistry (決疑論) has historically been used to address specific moral cases.
Compound of 決疑 (ketsugi, 'resolution of doubt') + 論 (ron, 'theory/discourse'). The term was coined in Japanese to translate the Western philosophical concept of casuistry.