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Love as the Source of Agapic Casuistry

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Conscience and Love in Making Judicial Decisions

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The essence of agapic casuistry is that cases of conscience are solved by applying the principle of ethical love. This principle requires that you should love your neighbour as yourself.1 From the point of view of natural law it is an universal commandment which binds every moral agent, independently of occupation, religion, race, gender, class and etc. Every conscience is able intuitively to grasp the content of this requirement. The cases of judicial conscience are legal cases. Therefore, this principle if applied inevitably affects the existing law. The Donoghue v. Stevenson case2 which will be considered later in more detail, is a good example of it.

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    Alexander Nikolaevich Shytov (Senior Lecturer, Special Lecturer)

  2. Commercial Law and Ethics, Mae Jo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Alexander Nikolaevich Shytov (Senior Lecturer, Special Lecturer)

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Shytov, A.N. (2001). Love as the Source of Agapic Casuistry. In: Conscience and Love in Making Judicial Decisions. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9745-6_6

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