Christian Ethics
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- Created on: 08-01-13 19:31
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- Christian Ethics
- Jesus
- Sermon on the Mount
- 'Blessed are the peacemakers'
- 'Blessed are the meak'
- 'Be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect'
- The Great Commandments
- Love thy neighbour
- Love God
- The most important rules to follow
- Simple and easy to follow
- Relevent in any culture or society
- Doesnt give you staight foreward answers
- Only have reported speak- dont know what Jesus acturaly said
- Aim to lead life as Jesus would
- Flexible as no specific rules
- Emphasis on the motivation of actions
- Reallistic- you dont always have to be perfect and always do the right thing, but be a good person
- Defender of the weak, innocent, ill, those shunned by society
- Sermon on the Mount
- The Bible
- Old testament
- Absolute and rule based
- Is it the literal words of God or the inspired words of God?
- If literal then the Bible is very absolute and authority is increased
- If inspired it is more a source of guidance and makes Bible more relative to the cultures of the time it was written
- New testament
- Strong emphasis on love and forgiveness
- All about Jesus
- Difficult to apply biblical teachings to todays society
- Spiritual guidance
- Contradictions between old and new testiment
- Open to various forms of interpritation
- Doesn't give straight forward answers to dilemmas
- Leads us along the right path towards decisions, makes us think
- Old testament
- Natural Law
- Underpinning of the Catholic Church
- Look at http://getrevising.co.uk/diagrams/natural_law_4
- The Decalogue
- The 10 commandments
- Impossible to keep to all of them
- Still applicable in todays society
- Divine Command Theory
- Morality is dependant on God, must follow a set of God given rules
- Very straight forward to follow
- Some rules are considered dated and not applicable in todays society
- Difficult to always follow all the rules
- Things are morally good or bad, morally obligatory, permissible or prohibited, solely because of Gods will and commands
- Euthyphro Dilemma
- Is something good becasue God commands it?
- Does god command it because it is good?
- Morality is dependant on God, must follow a set of God given rules
- Church
- Source of guidance and help
- Variety of different chruchs
- Conscience
- Ultimate guide for moral decision making
- Representitive of the Holy Spirt
- Situation Ethics
- 4 working principles
- Positivism
- You need to want to do good
- Relativism
- Absolute rules dont always apply
- Flexible and dependant on situation
- Accnoligues the existance of laws and their benifits to society but willing to but them aside if it brings a more loving out come
- Society needs rules
- Absolute rules dont always apply
- Personalism
- Puts people first
- Pragatism
- An action has to be practical
- Positivism
- 6 Fundamental Principles
- Love and justice are the same
- Love is not liking
- Treat everyone as equals and fairly
- How do you distinguish between two people?
- Treat everyone as equals and fairly
- Love justifies the means
- The end justifys the means
- Love is the only rule
- Love decides then and there
- Relative to the situaation, you cant always make decisions in advance
- Love is the only intrinsically good thing
- Agape - doing the most loving thing
- 'Love thy neighbours'
- Values love over everything else
- Is love always enough?
- Looks for most loving outcome
- You cant predict the future
- How do you define love as it is subjective emotion?
- Used to justify any action
- Teleological
- Fletcher came up with it
- Not everyone is capable of ethe situation in this way eg mentally ill, and children
- 4 working principles
- Jesus
- New testament
- Strong emphasis on love and forgiveness
- All about Jesus
- The Great Commandments
- Love thy neighbour
- Love God
- The most important rules to follow
- Simple and easy to follow
- Relevent in any culture or society
- Doesnt give you staight foreward answers
- Situation Ethics
- 4 working principles
- Positivism
- You need to want to do good
- Relativism
- Absolute rules dont always apply
- Flexible and dependant on situation
- Accnoligues the existance of laws and their benifits to society but willing to but them aside if it brings a more loving out come
- Society needs rules
- Absolute rules dont always apply
- Personalism
- Puts people first
- Pragatism
- An action has to be practical
- Positivism
- 6 Fundamental Principles
- Love and justice are the same
- Love is not liking
- Treat everyone as equals and fairly
- How do you distinguish between two people?
- Treat everyone as equals and fairly
- Love justifies the means
- The end justifys the means
- Love is the only rule
- Love decides then and there
- Relative to the situaation, you cant always make decisions in advance
- Love is the only intrinsically good thing
- Agape - doing the most loving thing
- 'Love thy neighbours'
- Values love over everything else
- Is love always enough?
- Looks for most loving outcome
- You cant predict the future
- How do you define love as it is subjective emotion?
- Used to justify any action
- Teleological
- Fletcher came up with it
- Not everyone is capable of ethe situation in this way eg mentally ill, and children
- 4 working principles
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