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Situation Ethics
FULL TEXT Situation Ethics
The full text of Joseph Fletcher's classic work is available as a google book. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y4759nkMFq0C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=situation+ethics+and+existentialism&source=bl&ots=leKW8Sb5cK&sig=O1lqduzdsnEScc476zUtJeOZ74s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-TRwUpVrhMrRBfP2gbgK&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=situation%20ethics%20and%20existentialism&f=false
Read MoreExtract 1: Bishop Robinson Honest to God
In this extract from Honest to God (pages 119-121) we can see the similarities between Robinson’s views in Honest to God…
Read MoreExtract 2: Article – Situation Ethics and Catholic morality
In this extract from an article by William Murphy (Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Wntr, 2008 by William…
Read MoreExtract 3: Against situationism – Veritatis Splendor (1995)
This encyclical published by John Paul II in 1995 argues vigorously against situation ethics and proportionalism. Instead, it is a defence…
Read MoreExtract 4: The Grand Inquisitor
Joseph Fletcher mentions the Grand Inquisitor in his book Situation Ethics. "It is Ivan's story to Alyosha about the terrible burden…
Read MoreExtract 5: Paul Ramsey on love and justice
Joseph Fletcher quotes Paul Ramsey's Basic Christian Ethics in a number of places, calling it " a brilliant exposition of the…
Read MoreExtract 6:Pope Pius XII 1956
Quotes in this article extract are from Acta Apostolicae Sedis 44 (1956). In this document Pope Pius accuses Situation Ethics of…
Read MoreExtract: Personalism
For situationists, personalism is the key to what is good: that which leads to “human welfare and happiness (but not, necessarily,…
Read MoreExtract: Agape
Fletcher maintains that the law for Christians is love, more specifically, agape. He says, “Agape is giving love–non-reciprocal, neighbor regarding–‘neighbor’ meaning…
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 MorePractise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
