Keywords

Question 1

Justice

Answer 1

Justice ordinarily refers to notions of fair distriution of benefits for all.

Fletcher specifically sees justice as a kind of tough love; love applied to the world.

Question 2

Pragmatism

Answer 2

Acting in moral situations, in a way that is practical, rather than purely ideologically.

Question 3

Relativism

Answer 3

The rejection of absalute moral standards, such as laws or rights. Good and bad are relative to an individual or a community ot, in Fletchers case, to love.

Question 4

Positivism

Answer 4

Proposes something as true or good without demonstrating it.

Flether posits love as good.

Question 5

Personalism

Answer 5

Ethics centered on peopl, rather than laws or people

Question 6

Conscience

Answer 6

The term ‘conscience’ may variously be used to refer to a faculty within us, a process of moral reasoning, insights from God or it may be understood in psychological terms.

Fletcher described it as a function rather than a faculty.

Question 7

Teleological

Answer 7

Moral goodness is determined by the end or result.

Question 8

Legalistic ethics

Answer 8

Law-based moral decision-making

Question 9

Antinomian ethics

Answer 9

Antinomian ethics do not recognise the role of law in morality

Question 10

Situational ethics

Answer 10

Another term for situation ethics, ethics focused on the situation, rather than the fixxed rules.

Question 11

Agape love

Answer 11

Unconditional love, the only ethical norm in situationism.

Question 12

Extrinsically good

Answer 12

good defined with reference to the end rather than good in and of itself. Fletcher argued only love was instrinsically good.