SE key points

Question 1

The six propositions

Answer 1

1. Love is the only thing that is intrinsically good
2. Love is the ruling norm in ethical decisionmaking and replaces all laws
3. Love and justice are the same thing–justice is love that is distributed
4. Love wills the neighbour’s good regardless of whether the neighbour is liked or not
5. Love is the goal or end of the act and that justifies any means to achieve that goal
6. Love decides on each situation as it arises without a set of laws to guide it

Question 2

The four working principles

Answer 2

1. pragmatism: it is based on experience rather than on theory
2. relativism: it is based on making the absolute laws of Christian ethics relative
3. positivism: it begins with belief in the reality and importance of love
4. personalism: persons, not laws or anything else, are at the centre of situation ethics