Situation Ethics

The new morality

1960’s: social revolution, sex (the pill), drugs, rock and roll, femme power!

Situation ethics emerged at a time where traditional religious ethics were facing drastic and permanent changes. 

• commonly associated with Joseph Fletcher
• Society changing - women wanted Jobs after they were the work force of WW2
• Distrust in the. Government - Vietnam war,JFK assassination 
• The age of the sexual revolution 
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