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Ethics
Powerpoint: Situation Ethics
Joseph Fletcher’s theory is placed in the context of Tillich and Robinson and then evaluated by Roman Catholic (Pope Pius) and…
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 MoreActivity: A Letter to the Church
This letter was sent to the editor of the Tablet, the Catholic newspaper, on January 9th 1965. Write a reply to…
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: 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 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: 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…
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