Are Normative Theories Useful In What They Might Say About Sexual Ethics? Flashcards
Situation ethics provides a way of thinking about the morality of sex in extreme circumstances where it might be the most living thing to do to break the prevailing social rules, focusing on the individual, making space for those who are different. Because it’s designed to deal with exceptions, it doesn’t clearly articulate how the social implications of sexual relationships could be ?
Addressed.
Natural law places the needs of the community and the importance of creating a good society above individual personal concerns, offering an approach that’s focused on establishing clear rules for society, providing a soupy stem for making sense of all moral behaviour, yet’s forgiving enough to recognise that human beings make mistakes when it acknowledges people make mistakes believing they’re right. It might be used in ways that narrowly defined the purpose of human beings and can be used to create rules that are too ? in its search for ?
Prescriptive.
Uniformity.
Utilitarians seek the greatest happiness for the greatest number, encouraging a free approach to sex if happiness’s equated with pleasure, although it’s arguable whether “? ?” necessarily produces deep happiness that can be found in more meaningful, committed relationships. ? who seek to measure pleasure qualitatively would limit the extent to which the majority could control or limit the freedoms of the minority. ? takes a societal view of morality, which perhaps makes it less useful when coming to personal questions of sexuality.
Free love.
Utilitarians.
Utilitarianism.
Kantian ethics offers principles for every aspect of human life, seeking to ensure that social and legal rules take account of the importance of freedom and human dignity, emphasising an individuals responsibility to act ethically and the need for a universal approach to morality. It doesn’t ? rules, it prescribes the principles that underpin those rules and’s the most adaptable of the four. It can inform both personal choices and law, recognising both the inherent value of the individual human life and the importance of ensuring people live with each other and treat each other fairly.
Prescribe.
