The perceived divine purpose for individual acts and objects.
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What did Fletcher propose?
An agapeistic calculus.
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How is it not absolutist?
A framework aiming to inform a situation with compassion.
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What would any attempt to apply a general rule to a specific situation overrule?
The interests of individuals. An action is judged on the extent to which it helps people.
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Why should the interests of people be kept at heart?
The Christian God is a personal God through conscience.
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What is a strength of love?
Universal.
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Does the end justify the means?
Yes.
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What could love refer to?
Biological attraction associated with the identification of a mate for the continuation of the genetic code.
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How did Fletcher criticise antinomianism?
Intuition, no laws or principles can lead to anarchical chaos.
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What is legalism?
Laws on which a series of commentaries develop enabling them to be applied to new situations. Operated by Pharisees in first-century Palestine.
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How did Fletcher critique it?
Cannot cope with technological advances e.g stem cells.
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What did he think?
Neither extreme is viable. Ethics must be based on love.
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How is it similar to utilitarianism?
Teleological. Replaces pleasure with agape.
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Give a criticism of situationalism.
Experience and the wider picture could be overlooked.
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What is a downfall of individualism?
Does not provide collective ethical framework.
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How is it absolutist?
Rule.
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What is problematic in his definition of a situation?
Who is considered?
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What is problematic about love?
People may disagree, there is no way of supporting one interpretation over another. Subjective.
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What is problematic about teleology?
Consequences can be difficult to predict.
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What is another weakness?
A loving thing may not be the right thing.
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How does human nature weaken this theory?
Humans are selfish.
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What did Tillich argue in Morality and Beyond?
Proportionalism.
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What is proportionalism?
A stance between a situationalist and legalistic position because a lack of rules would cause everyone to reevaluate their morality which is impossible to maintain. Natural law should not be overruled without a proportional reason.
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What do proportionalists distinguish between?
What is good and what is right because it is possible to have good intentions but must be viewed in context.
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What does Hoose argue?
Consequences must be considered, rather than just intuition. Must weigh intrinsic good and bad against the consequences so is situationalist.
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What is the Veritatis Splendor?
Sets out Roman Catholic moral teaching. Issued by Pope John Paul II in 1993. Criticises developments in moral relativism. Upholds objective moral truths.
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Give a quote.
"lost the sense of the transcendent". Places moral truth with the Church, natural law and splendor of God's truth.
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What are Natural Moral Laws deduced from?
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The perceived divine purpose for individual acts and objects.
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What did Fletcher propose?
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How is it not absolutist?
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Card 5
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What would any attempt to apply a general rule to a specific situation overrule?
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