casuistically

adv

1. Using casuistry or casuistics.

   “He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles.”

2. From the perspective of casuistics or casuistry.

   “Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed.”

   “Rule-utilitarian arguments — arguments that proceed from the consequences of our moral rules rather than of our individual acts — are casuistically very powerful.”

   “She would then be — casuistically, I suppose, and legally, without doubt — worse off than the seduced Isabella: for Isabella would have submitted to Angelo without consent of the will”

   “Critics may point out flaws in this story, which is casuistically vulnerable”