Situation Ethics

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.

What is meant by antinomianism?

• Being without and opposed to having rules or laws.

• Following the rules

• Love distribution

• Agapeic love

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

What might a follower of Situation Ethics think about a law that completely banned Euthanasia?

• Wrong

• Right

• Right in some circumstances

Which scholar is largely associated with Situation ethics?

• John Hick

• Richard Swinburne

• Joseph Fletcher

• Thomas Aquinas

Situation ethics is...

• Teleological

• Deonotological

Paul Tillich said

• 'Love is the ultimate law'

• 'Love is the only way'

• 'Love over all laws'

• 'Law is the ultimate end goal'

Who did Fletcher share his ideas with?

• William Vecera

• William Paley

• William Plato

• William Temple