Situation Ethics (Joseph Fletcher)
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- Situation Ethics (Joseph Fletcher)
- "There is only one ultimate and invariable duty, and its formula is "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself". How to do this is another question, but this is the whole of moral duty." - William Temple
- Three approaches to ethics
- Situationism
- Love is absolute, to be applied situationally
- Situationism
- The six propositions
- Only love is intrinsically good
- The ruling norm of Christian decision is love
- Legalism
- Fixed moral rules
- Three approaches to ethics
- Situationism
- Love is absolute, to be applied situationally
- Situationism
- Denial of the possibility of any rules (e.g. Nietzsche, Sartre, other existentialists)
- Antinomialism
- Antinomialism
- Pragmatism
- It has to be practical - not just a lofty theory or concept
- Four working Principles
- Situation Ethics (Joseph Fletcher)
- "There is only one ultimate and invariable duty, and its formula is "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself". How to do this is another question, but this is the whole of moral duty." - William Temple
- The six propositions
- Only love is intrinsically good
- The ruling norm of Christian decision is love
- Relativism
- Everything is relative (situational) and subjective
- Situation Ethics (Joseph Fletcher)
- Relativism
- Everything is relative (situational) and subjective
- People are most important. e.g. Jesus - the Sabbath was made for the man, not the man for the Sabbath". - Rules are made to benefit us
- Personalism
- Four working Principles
- Four working Principles
- Personalism
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