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Article: Norman Anderson – A Christian Response to Situationism
http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/vox/vol09/ethics_anderson.pdf
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: The muddle of relativism
This entry from the New World Encyclopaedia very clearly explains why and how we can classify utilitarian ethics and situation ethics…
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…
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 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 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 MoreHandout: Situation Ethics
SITUATION ETHICS “All you need is love.” (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) This article by Richard Jacobs is taken from the…
Read MoreExtract 6:The Case for euthanasia
Here is an extract from a longer article giving a humanist, Aristotelean justification for euthanasia, by Paul Kurtz. Source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m6875/is_n3_8/ai_n25021537/ There are…
Read MoreExtract 5: Effect on public conscience
Here is the view of the Christian Medical fellowship, and is part of a longer article giving twelve arguments against euthanasia….
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