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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 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 MoreRoadmap: Virtue Ethics
Aristotelean virtue ethics is different from MacIntyre’s in at least three ways. Aristotle starts with an idea of the soul –…
Read MoreHandout: Augustine on the Will, Sin and Grace
Augustine on Human Nature Here is an example of the excellent resources on the website philosopherkings. Please go to the website…
Read MoreRoadmap: Natural Law
Natural Law is driven by a teleological principle that everything, and everyone has a ‘proper purpose’ or ultimate function. According to…
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….
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