Situation Ethics
All you need to know about situation ethics!
- Created by: Kieran Cutting
- Created on: 12-05-13 12:39
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- Situation Ethics
- Context
- Social
- socially shifting moral zeitgeist
- hippie movement/ liberality
- divorce/ abortion laws relaxed
- socially shifting moral zeitgeist
- Intellectual
- 'Death of God' movement in Anglican Church
- rejection of a transcendent God
- emphasis on Jesus as the emobodiment of love
- "assertions about God are assertions about love" - Robinson
- 'Death of God' movement in Anglican Church
- Social
- Agape
- impartial, non-directed, charitable love for all humanity
- "put aside rules if love is better served" - Fletcher
- impartial, non-directed, charitable love for all humanity
- Assumptions
- Positivism
- love is given first place in all actions
- Pragmatism
- must achieve a realistic good
- Relativism
- no fixed laws
- Personalism
- people above rules
- asserts the importance of human freedom
- people above rules
- Positivism
- Principles
- love is the only absolute
- love and justice are the same
- love seeks the best interests of others
- love has no favourites
- love is the final end
- the loving thing to do is situational
- no fixed laws
- consequences cannot be accurately predicted
- Examples
- sacrificial adultery
- Mrs. Bergmeier imprisoned in a Russian prison camp, must have a child to return to family
- himself might his quietus make
- treatment costs $40 every 3 days, insurance payout is $100,000
- loving thing to do is die
- treatment costs $40 every 3 days, insurance payout is $100,000
- too extreme - Barclay
- must be extreme because in general, rules should be followed
- sacrificial adultery
- Weaknesses
- "there is a danger of selfishness creeping in under the banner of love" - Vardy
- doesn't focus any other virtues
- "it is far from easy in some situations to decide what love requires" - Vardy
- rejects power of God's grace and collective wisdom of the Church
- Pope Pius XII
- some situations are simply tragic - Hursthouse
- "the only ethical theory for a man come of age" - Robinson
- midway between anti nomianism and legalism
- Biblical examples
- "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath"
- Jesus taught that love was the most important commandment
- Context
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