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Extract 13: Natural Law Today – Stephen Pope
source Some of the major criticisms of natural law have been suggested earlier but can be recapitulated in light of contemporary…
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…
Read MoreExtract 7: Aristotle’s Idea of the Soul
source Aristotle expands his notion of happiness through an analysis of the human soul which structures and animates a living human…
Read MoreExtract 5: The Meaning of Phronesis
source Practical wisdom (Greek phronesis; sometimes translated ‘prudence’), says Aristotle, is ‘a reasoned capacity to act with regard to the things…
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 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…
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