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Extract: Personalism
For situationists, personalism is the key to what is good: that which leads to “human welfare and happiness (but not, necessarily,…
Read MoreExtract: Positivism
Situationism is positivistic. Fletcher (1966) claims that ethics (love especially) must be believed not proved. There are no proofs or logical…
Read MoreExtract: Relativism
Fletcher claims that situationism “relativizes the absolute, it does not absolutise the relative”(45). It is true that Fletcher makes good or…
Read MoreExtract: Pragmatism
Pragmatism, according to Fletcher, says that the good is what works, what is expedient,what gives satisfaction (42). In pragmatism, the ends…
Read MoreUtilitarianism Roadmap: Structure of Thought
Utilitarianism is an empirical philosophy (requiring a calculation) derived from the idea that pleasure or happiness is the one intrinsic good….
Read MoreExtract 8: Euthanasia – a personal reflection against
source: Church of England Christopher Jones wrote this reflection on 30th November 2011, less than six months before his death, aged…
Read MoreRoadmap: Kant’s Structure of Thought
Kantian ethics divides into two sets of ideas – or pairs of opposites. The key to understanding Kant is to try…
Read MoreActivity: Strengths and Weaknesses – Fill in the boxes
Activity: Fill in your own ideas in the blank spaces – with three strengths and three weaknesses Rigidity Kant gave the example…
Read MoreExtract 12: The Four Laws of Aquinas by Richard Jacobs
source NATURAL LAW THEORY “…there is in nature a common principle of the just and unjust that all people in some…
Read MoreLesson Plan: outline to Situation Ethics ppt
Situation Ethics 1. Situation Ethics Charlotte Vardy “Sometimes you’ve gotta put your principles to one side and do the right thing”……
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
