Situation ethics

What is situation Ethics

The right action is whatever produces the most loving outcome

Pragmatism

If it works and produces the most loving result, it's the right thing to do

Relativism

No fixed rules except love

Positivism

Love must be freely chosen as the first principle not forced like rules

Personalism

People come before rules

Legalism

Fletcher rejected following rigid rules

Antinomianism

Fletcher rejected no rules

Proposition 1

Nothing is intrinsically good except love

Proposition 2

Love is the ruling norm

Proposition 3

justice is love distributed

Proposition 5

Love justifies the means

Strength

Flexible, rooted in Christian teaching and allows for individual responsibility for actions

Weakness

Too subjective, consequences cannot be known and lack of rules means any action can be justified

Fletcher quote

The end justifies the means, if the end is love