Situation Ethics

Question 1

What is Agape?

Answer 1

selfless, unconditional love

Question 2

What is Agapeic calculus?

Answer 2

a method to calculate the most loving outcome using agape love.

Question 3

What is Antinomianism?

Answer 3

the idea that people are under no obligation to obey the laws of ethics or morality as presented by religious authorities. There are no rules, laws or principles which must be followed the situation itself will provide the solution, which can be found through intuition.

Question 4

What is Autonomy?

Answer 4

the ability to determine one’s own course in life freely

Question 5

What does beneficient mean?

Answer 5

performing good acts; helping people

Question 6

What is conscience?

Answer 6

a person’s moral sense of right and wrong; the part of a person that judges the morality of one’s own actions.

Question 7

What is consequentialism?

Answer 7

the view taken by some ethical theories, that moral decision should be based entirely on the effects (outcomes) or consequences produced by actions.

Question 8

What are the 4 working principles and what are they for?

Answer 8

personalism, positivism, pragmatism and relativism. they help decide what the most loving action in any given situation would be

Question 9

What does individualistic mean?

Answer 9

on the basis of an individual opinion and situation.

Question 10

What does intrinsically good mean?

Answer 10

goodness of something being part of that something

Question 11

What is Legalism?

Answer 11

an ethical approach based on prescribed rules by which people can make every moral decision: rules that are correct and cannot be broken they are absolute for every given situation

Question 12

What is personalism? (4 working principles)

Answer 12

people, not laws, must be put first in any given situation, and one must aim to achieve the most loving outcome

Question 13

What is positivism? (4 working principles)

Answer 13

means one must accept that acting in the most loving way is the right thing to do without any rational proof that it is. Love provides justification, not proof, for an ethical decision

Question 14

What is pragmatism? (4 working principles)

Answer 14

it means one must evaluate the situation and perform whatever action is practical/workable, motivated by love.

Question 15

What is relativism? (4 working principles)

Answer 15

The view that there are no universal moral norms, but that an action should be judged right or wrong depending on the social, cultural, and individual circumstances in each situation

Question 16

What are the 6 fundamental principles used for?

Answer 16

devised by fletcher in order to help decide what the most loving action in any given situation would be

Question 17

(6 fundamental principles) 1. only one thing is _; namely, love: nothing else at all.

Answer 17

intrinsically good

Question 18

(6 fundamental principles) 2. only the principle of love provides a _ by which to make judgements of right and wrong

Answer 18

reasonable base

Question 19

(6 fundamental principles) 3. love and justice are the same, for justice is _, nothing else.

Answer 19

love distributed

Question 20

(6 fundamental principles) 4. love wills the _, regardless of feelings

Answer 20

good of others

Question 21

(6 fundamental principles) 5. a loving end justifies _

Answer 21

the means

Question 22

(6 fundamental principles) 6. love’s decisions are made situationally, not _

Answer 22

prescriptively

Question 23

What does subjective mean?

Answer 23

a matter of opinion

Question 24

Define situation ethics

Answer 24

ethical theory based on the premise that the right course of action is to do the most loving thing and that the most loving thing varies from situation to situation

Question 25

What does teleological mean?

Answer 25

the end justifies the means – you decide the rightness of an action based on the end result it produces. i.e. its consequences

Question 26

What Bible parable does Fletcher use to support his theory?

Answer 26

The good samaritan