Ethics

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1. Normative Ethical Theories (Religious Approaches): Situation Ethics A normative ethical theory taking a religious approach to moral decision-making. 1.1 Content…

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Situation Ethics is unworkable in practice. Discuss (40/40, Grade A*) The workability of situation ethics could mean the ease of identifying…

SITUATION ETHICS “All you need is love.” (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) This article by Richard Jacobs is taken from the…

Joseph Fletcher’s theory is placed in the context of Tillich and Robinson and then evaluated by Roman Catholic (Pope Pius) and…

“Sometimes you’ve gotta put your principles to one side and do the right thing” “As we shall see, Christian situation ethics…

This letter was sent to the editor of the Tablet, the Catholic newspaper, on January 9th 1965. Write a reply to…

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The full text of Joseph Fletcher's classic work is available as a google book. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y4759nkMFq0C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=situation+ethics+and+existentialism&source=bl&ots=leKW8Sb5cK&sig=O1lqduzdsnEScc476zUtJeOZ74s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-TRwUpVrhMrRBfP2gbgK&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=situation%20ethics%20and%20existentialism&f=false

In this extract from Honest to God (pages 119-121) we can see the similarities between Robinson’s views in Honest to God…

In this extract from an article by William Murphy (Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Wntr, 2008 by William…

This encyclical published by John Paul II in 1995 argues vigorously against situation ethics and proportionalism.  Instead, it is a defence…

Joseph Fletcher mentions the Grand Inquisitor in his book Situation Ethics.  "It is Ivan's story to Alyosha about the terrible burden…

Joseph Fletcher quotes Paul Ramsey's Basic Christian Ethics in a number of places, calling it " a brilliant exposition of the…

Quotes in this article extract are from Acta Apostolicae Sedis 44 (1956). In this document Pope Pius accuses Situation Ethics of…

For situationists, personalism is the key to what is good: that which leads to “human welfare and happiness (but not, necessarily,…

Fletcher maintains that the law for Christians is love, more specifically, agape. He says, “Agape is giving love–non-reciprocal, neighbor regarding–‘neighbor’ meaning…

Situationism is positivistic. Fletcher (1966) claims that ethics (love especially) must be believed not proved. There are no proofs or logical…

Fletcher claims that situationism “relativizes the absolute, it does not absolutise the relative”(45). It is true that Fletcher makes good or…

Pragmatism, according to Fletcher, says that the good is what works, what is expedient,what gives satisfaction (42). In pragmatism, the ends…

CHAPTER FOUR Situation Ethics (source) When we talk about ethics, we mostly mean a series of rules and laws and principles…

source First, Fletcher‘s analysis of the three main ethical approaches will be evaluated. Second, the theoretical basis of situationism will be…

source Jesus and Situation Ethics In his book, The Christian New Morality, O. Sydney Barr stated that “The new morality is…

This extract is taken from Professor Norman Andersen’s critique of situational ethics in 9 Ethics in a Permissive Society (Fontana, London,…

CAN THERE BE MORALITY WITHOUT RULES? E. La B. Cherbonnier This lecture was delivered within the Student Senate Lecture Series,…

This article follows Norman Geisler’s classification of moral theories into antinomianism (eg existential ethics), generalism (one general principle but no universal…