AS Situation Ethics
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- AS Situation Ethics
- Four Working Principles
- Positivism- it must put faith before reasoning- i'm a Christian, so what should i do?
- Personalism - people should be at the centre of the theory
- Pragmatism- it has to work in daily life- it must be pratical
- Relativism- there should be no fixed rules
- Six Fundamental Principles
- Christian decision making is based on love
- love is the only absolute
- Justice is love distributed
- love wants the good for anyone, whoever they are
- only the end justifies the means
- love is acted out situationally not prescriptivally
- Advantages
- it's easy to understand
- it is flexible: it give freedom to act differently from another
- it enables an emotional and rational responce to any situation
- it is based on love
- Disadvantages
- the absolute law of love is still a law
- there is a danger that it will lead to moral ambiguity
- it tends to sub divide complex moral situation into individual moral decision where the law of love must be applied
- Four Working Principles
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