Situation Ethics Overview
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- Created on: 28-01-19 15:40
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- Situation Ethics Joseph Fletcher
- Based on Agape
- 4 Types of love- Agape, Eros, Philos, Storge
- It is an attitude not a feeling
- Fletcher's understanding of the Conscience
- The conscience isn't intuition or an innate sense within you
- Conscience is something you DO when you make decisions
- 4 Working principles
- Pragmatism
- Based on experience, not theory
- For an action it be right it has to be practical
- Based on experience, not theory
- Positivism
- Begins with the belief in love being important
- Disagrees w/ Kant + NL as you have to start w/ a positive choice in order to do good.
- Begins with the belief in love being important
- Relativism
- Based on making absolute laws of Christian ethics relative
- Rules don't always apply, it depends on the sit.
- Based on making absolute laws of Christian ethics relative
- Personalism
- People are the center of ethics
- Down to the individual to decide.
- People are the center of ethics
- Pragmatism
- Six Fundamental Principles
- Love decides there and then
- You decide in the moment what is right/ wrong as there are no rules
- Love is the only norm (rule)
- The law should only be adhered to if its outcome is love.
- Love + justice are the same
- There cannot be love w/o justice
- Love is not liking
- Love is showing good judgement. MLK said agape was " Creative, redemptive goodwill to all men"
- Love justifies the means
- If an action causes harm, it's wrong. You can't claim something is right when you know the consequences cause harm
- Love is only always good
- Nothing else is good except for love, everything acquires its value.
- Love decides there and then
- "There are times when a man must push aside his principles and do the right thing" Fletcher
- "An ethics to humanity come of age" Bishop John Ribinson
- Based on Agape
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