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justice

just behaviour or treatment

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pragmatism

moral actions must work/achieve some realistic goal

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relativism

good n bad are relative to an individual/community - a rejection of absolute moral standards eg laws

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positivism

first place is given to Christian love, rooted in faith

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personalism

people come first, not rules or ideals

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conscience

a kind of moral deliberation, rather than a faculty within a human being

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teleological ethics

moral goodness is determined by the end or result

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legalistic ethics

ethical decisions based on laws

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antinomian ethics

ethics which do no recognise the role of law in morality

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agape love

unconditional love, the only ethical norm in situationism

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extrinsically

external to a thing, its essential nature, or its original character

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joseph fletcher quotation: “the morality of an action…

…depends on the situation”

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who founded the theory of situation ethics in the 60s?

joseph fletcher

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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

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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

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why do some christian thinkers criticise situation ethics?

critics think it’s unjust, individualistic, unduly demanding of individual conscience n socially destructive

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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”

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the 6 propositions (1 - intrinsic good)

only one thing is intrinsically good; namely love: nothing else at all.

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the 6 propositions (2 - neighbour)

love wills the neighbour’s good whether we like him or not

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the 6 propositions (3 - justice)

love and justice are the same, for justice is love distributed, nothing else

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the 6 propositions (4 - norm)

the ruling norm of Christian decisions is love: nothing else

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the 6 propositions (5 - teleological)

only the end justifies the means, nothing else

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the 6 propositions (6 - decisions)

love’s decisions are made situationally, not prescriptively

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4 working principles

  • pragmatism

  • relativism

  • positivism

  • personalism

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the 4 types of love

  • eros

  • agape

  • phileo

  • storge

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eros

the greek word for sexual/passionate love

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agape

the greek word that refers to the love of God, and one kind we must have for people

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phileo

to have a special interest in someone/something, focus on close association

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storge

the love n affection that naturally occurs between parents n children