Situation Ethics

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  • Situation Ethics
    • Teleological
      • Comes from the Greek word ''telos'' meaning ''end''
      • Consequential theory
      • Concerned with consequence and ending rather than the action
    • Law of love
      • In situation ethics, within each context, it is not a universal law that is to be followed, but the law of love.
        • Situation ethics, takes into account the particular context of an act when evaluating it ethically, rather than judging it according to absolute moral standards.
    • Four working principles
      • Pragmatism, positivism, relativism and personalism are the four working principles
        • 1. Pragmatism (it has to work in daily life - it must be practical)
        • 2. Relativism (there should be no fixed rules)
        • 3. Positivism (it must put faith before reasoning – "I am a Christian, so what should I do?")
        • 4. Personalism (people should be at the centre of the theory)
    • Joseph Fletcher
      • Fletcher believed situation ethics is based on agape love (Christian unconditional love), and says that we should always do the most loving thing in any situation.
      • Fletcher rejected following rules regardless (legalism) and also the idea that we should not have any rules (antinomianism) and said that we need to find a balance between the two.
    • Six Fundamental Principles
      • 1. Love is the only absolute (it is intrinsically good)
        • 2. Christian decision making is based on love
          • 3. Justice is love distributed
            • 4. Love wants the good for anyone, whoever they are
              • 5. Only the end justifies the means
                • 6. Love is acted out situationally not prescriptivally
    • Advantages and disadvantages
      • Advantage - The key advantage is that it uses rules to provide a framework but allows people to break rules to reflect life's complexities.
      • Disadvantages - It does not provide a clear definition of what love actually is. It is human nature to love family more than strangers.We do not know whose rules to follow.

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laurennh

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sophie_beckk

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laurennh

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laurennh

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sophie_beckk

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i cannot 'wig' 

as i am bald

laurennh

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:O william shakespeare could never!

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