Situation Ethics
- Created by: Joel Rigby
- Created on: 01-12-20 14:17
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- Situation Ethics
- Three approaches
- Legalistic
- Based on fixed laws.
- Antinomian
- Having no laws at all.
- Situational
- Looking at what is the most loving in a moral problem.
- Fletcher thought this provided the best middle path.
- Looking at what is the most loving in a moral problem.
- Legalistic
- Four working principles
- Pragmatism: acting, in moral situations, in a way that is practical, rather than purely ideological.
- Relativism: there are no universal norms/rules: each situation has to be looked at independently
- Personalism: people matter more than laws. The needs of people should be considered when moral actions are taken.
- Conscience: the use of reason in making loving moral decisions.
- 'rules of thumbs'
- Six Propositions
- 1. Love is always good
- 2. Love is the only norm (rule)
- 3. Love and justice are the same
- 4. Love is not liking
- 5. Love justifies the means
- 6. Love decides there and then
- Three approaches
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