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justice
just behaviour or treatment
pragmatism
moral actions must work/achieve some realistic goal
relativism
good n bad are relative to an individual/community - a rejection of absolute moral standards eg laws
positivism
first place is given to Christian love, rooted in faith
personalism
people come first, not rules or ideals
conscience
a kind of moral deliberation, rather than a faculty within a human being
teleological ethics
moral goodness is determined by the end or result
legalistic ethics
ethical decisions based on laws
antinomian ethics
ethics which do no recognise the role of law in morality
agape love
unconditional love, the only ethical norm in situationism
extrinsically
external to a thing, its essential nature, or its original character
joseph fletcher quotation: “the morality of an action…
…depends on the situation”
who founded the theory of situation ethics in the 60s?
joseph fletcher
main cause of invention of situation ethics
1960s: younger generation wanted to be liberated from conservative way of life lived by their parents esp regarding love, sex n marriage, fletcher n robinson felt the need to modernise the church’s teachings
how is situation ethics different from other types of Christian ethics?
different from natural law n legalistic forms of biblical ethics
its supporters suggest it is consistent with the representation of Jesus in the gospel
why do some christian thinkers criticise situation ethics?
critics think it’s unjust, individualistic, unduly demanding of individual conscience n socially destructive
joseph fletcher quotation: “actions aren’t intrinsically good or evil. they always form part of a chain of…
…cause and effect. they are goof or evil depending upon whether they promote the most loving result”
the 6 propositions (1 - intrinsic good)
only one thing is intrinsically good; namely love: nothing else at all.
the 6 propositions (2 - neighbour)
love wills the neighbour’s good whether we like him or not
the 6 propositions (3 - justice)
love and justice are the same, for justice is love distributed, nothing else
the 6 propositions (4 - norm)
the ruling norm of Christian decisions is love: nothing else
the 6 propositions (5 - teleological)
only the end justifies the means, nothing else
the 6 propositions (6 - decisions)
love’s decisions are made situationally, not prescriptively
4 working principles
pragmatism
relativism
positivism
personalism
the 4 types of love
eros
agape
phileo
storge
eros
the greek word for sexual/passionate love
agape
the greek word that refers to the love of God, and one kind we must have for people
phileo
to have a special interest in someone/something, focus on close association
storge
the love n affection that naturally occurs between parents n children