Situation Ethics

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  • Created on: 18-05-21 08:35
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  • Situation Ethics
    • Agape
      • Unconditional love
    • Six propositions
      • 1. Love is the only thing that is intrinsically good
      • 2. Love is the only ruling norm in ethical decision making and replaces all laws
      • 3. Love and justice are the same thing- justice is love that is distributed
      • 4.  Love wills the neighbours good regardless of whether the neighbour is liked or not
      • 5. Love is the the goal or end 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 guides
    • The four working principles
      • 1. Pragmatism- it is based on experience rather than on theory
      • 2. Relativism- it is based on making the absolute laws of Christian ethics relative
      • 3. Positivism- it begins with belief in the reality and importance of love
      • 4. Personalism- persons, not laws or anything else, are at the centre of situation ethics
    • Conscience
      • Is a verb not a noun. A term that describes attempts to make decisions creatively

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