Situation Ethics
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- Created on: 17-02-20 10:33
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- Situation ethics
- 6 propositions
- Love is the ruling norm - replaces all laws
- Jesus fulfilled the OT prophecy and replaces the Jewish law with love
- 'Sabbath is for man not man for the Sabbath'
- Jesus fulfilled the OT prophecy and replaces the Jewish law with love
- Love = justice = love distributed
- Prevents minorities being marginalised
- Love wills the good of the neighbour even if they are not liked
- Jesus: 'Love your neighbour'
- Love = goal - end justifies the means = teleological
- Love is the only that that is intrinsically good
- Augustine: to know a man 'you do not ask him what his believes or hopes, but what he loves'
- Love decides on each situation as it arises without guiding laws
- Brings people to a higher level of personal responsibility
- Love is the ruling norm - replaces all laws
- 4 working principles
- Positivism
- Based on belief in and importance of love
- Theological positivism - accept love then apply it
- Based on belief in and importance of love
- Personalism
- Persons are at the centre of decision making
- Fletcher: 'It is moral when people are used, and things are loved'
- E.g. sweatshops
- Fletcher: 'It is moral when people are used, and things are loved'
- Persons are at the centre of decision making
- Relativism
- Love replaces all Christian laws
- Pragmatism
- Based on experience over theory
- Bosnian conflict women were ***** by soldiers - the RCC permitted contraception = loving response
- Based on experience over theory
- Positivism
- Conscience
- St Paul: 'A director of human decisions not simply a reviewer'
- Conscience is a VERB not a noun
- No physical conscience - a word to describe decision-making as active, effective and creative
- Fletcher: 'As a function not a faculty'
- Agape
- = self-sacrifice, unconditional love
- Helpful method of moral decision-making?
- Does the rejection of absolute rules by SE make moral decision-making entirely individualistic and subjective?
- Is Fletcher's understanding of agape really religious or means nothing more than wanting the best for the person involved in a given situation?
- Can an ethical judgement on something being good, bad, right or wrong be base don whether agape is best served?
- 6 propositions
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