Situation Ethics

In which year did Fletcher write his book Situation Ethics?

• 1952

• 1962

• 1966

• 1956

1. What does ‘personalism’ mean in Fletcher’s for working principles?

• Primary considering the individual rather than any rules.

• Ethics which look at the end result in order to determine the morality of an action.

• Practicality; the action chosen to be practically applicable.

• Agapeic love

What are teleological ethics?

• Primary considering the individual rather than any rules.

• Practicality; the action chosen to be practically applicable.

• Ethics which look at the end result in order to determine the morality of an action.

• Agapeic love

What does ‘pragmatism’ mean?

• Agapeic love

• Practicality; the action chosen to be practically applicable.

• Primary considering the individual rather than any rules.

• Ethics which look at the end result in order to determine the morality of an action.

According to Fletcher, what is the only thing that is intrinsically good?

• Love distribution

• Being without and opposed to having rules or laws.

• Conscience

• Agapeic love

What does Fletcher say that justice consists of?

• Conscience

• Pragmatism

• Love distribution

• Personalism

What is meant by antinomianism?

• Being without and opposed to having rules or laws.

• Following the rules

• Love distribution

• Agapeic love

1. Fletcher’s four principles involve relativism, pragmatism, Personalism and what else?

• Conscience

• Personalism

• pragmatism

• relativism

What is the fifth of Fletchers six propositions?

• Christian decision making is based on love

• Love wants the good for anyone, whoever they are

• Love is acted out situationally not prescriptivally

• If love is the end result, then any means are justified.

Does Fletcher agree that the morality of an action should be judged by its consequences?

• Yes

• No