Situation Ethics Key information
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- Situation ethics
- Agape
- Do the most loving thing in any situation
- Six Propositions
- 1. Love is the only intrinsic good
- 3.Love and justice are the same thing–justice is love that is distributed
- 2. Love is the ruling norm in ethical decision making and replaces all laws
- 4. Love wills the neighbour’s good regardless of whether the neighbour is liked or not
- 5. Love is the goal or end of the act and that justifies any means to achieve that goal
- 6. Love decides on each situation as it arises without a set of laws to guide it
- 4 working principles
- Pragmatism- it is based on experience rather than on theory
- Personalism- people should be at the centre of the theory
- Positivism- it begins with belief in the reality and importance of love
- Relativism- there should be no fixed rules. it is based on making the absolute laws of Christian ethics relative
- Conscience
- Conscience is a verb not a noun- you must do consicence
- it describes our attempts to make proper decisions. It's the process of making moral decisions.
- he rejected legalism and antinomian society (no rules) and thought we should find a middle ground
- Agape
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