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Situation Ethics
Extract: 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 MoreArticle: William Barclay Ethics in a Permissive Society
CHAPTER FOUR Situation Ethics (source) When we talk about ethics, we mostly mean a series of rules and laws and principles…
Read MoreArticle: Critique of Situation Ethics – Bob Wadholm
source First, Fletcher‘s analysis of the three main ethical approaches will be evaluated. Second, the theoretical basis of situationism will be…
Read MoreArticle: Why Jesus Wasn’t a Situationist
source Jesus and Situation Ethics In his book, The Christian New Morality, O. Sydney Barr stated that “The new morality is…
Read MoreArticle: – Norman Anderson on Situationism
This extract is taken from Professor Norman Andersen’s critique of situational ethics in 9 Ethics in a Permissive Society (Fontana, London,…
Read MoreArticle: Can there be morality without rules?
CAN THERE BE MORALITY WITHOUT RULES? E. La B. Cherbonnier This lecture was delivered within the Student Senate Lecture Series,…
Read MoreArticle: Situationism and other classifications
This article follows Norman Geisler’s classification of moral theories into antinomianism (eg existential ethics), generalism (one general principle but no universal…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
