casuistry

• argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
• moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
• The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason
• Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals

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