Situation Ethics mindmap
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- Situation Ethics
- Joseph Fletcher
- The New Morality
- 'Principled relativism' - middle ground between legalism and antinomianism
- The role of conscience
- 'There is no conscience; conscience is merely a word for our attempts to make decisions creatively, constructively, fittingly'
- The way the conscience functions is by looking forwards towards prospective application (moral problems to solve)
- The practical application of agape to a given situation
- Situation comes first and principles come second
- Biblical evidence to support Fletcher's approach
- Parable of the Good Samaritan
- 1 Corinithians
- Four working principles
- Pragmatism: being practical
- Relativism
- Positivism: statements of faith are accepted voluntarily and reason is used to work within or work out one's faith
- Personalism: ethics deals primarily with people
- Six fundamental principles
- Only one 'thing' is intrinsically good, namely, love, nothing else at all
- The ruling norm of Christian decisions is love; nothing else
- Love and justice are the same, for justice is love distributed, nothing else
- Love wills the neighbour's good whether we like him or not
- Only the end justifies the means, nothing else
- Love's decisions are made situationally, not prescvriptively
- Joseph Fletcher
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