Situation Ethics Flashcards
What does Temple say about love-centred ethics?
“There is only one ultimate and invariable duty and its formula is ‘thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself’”
What does Temple say about situational ethics?
“What acts are right may depend on circumstances”
What does Fletcher say about love?
“Love is the only universal”
How do Aquinas’ secondary precepts align with situation ethics?
“For the singular act cannot take place without circumstances make it right or wrong”
How are situation ethics based in Aristotle’s teachings?
“To feel or act towards the right person to the right extent at the right time for the right reason in the right way that is not easy”
How does Temple show that justice is love in action?
“The primary form of love in social organisation is justice”
What is legalism?
The traditional Christian approach of universal & absolute rules.
What is antinomianism?
The existentialist approach of having no rules.
What is pragmatism?
Practical solutions
What is relativism?
Relative to the outcome
What is positivism?
Put love at the centre
What is personalism?
Placing people at the centre of decision making
What is the 1st proposition?
“only one thing is intrinsically good, namely love nothing else”
What is the 2nd proposition?
“the ruling norm of Christianity is love”
What is the 3rd proposition?
“love and justice are the same, for justice is love distributed nothing else”
What is the 4th proposition?
“love wills the neighbour’s good whether we like him or not”
What is the 5th proposition?
“only the end justifies the means, nothing else”
What is the 6th proposition?
“love’s decisions are made situationally not prescriptively”
What is Jesus’ greatest commandment?
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself” Mark 12
What are St Paul’s virtues?
“faith, hope and love abide, the greatest of these are love” Corinthians
How is showing love being like Jesus?
“love one another as I have loved you” 1 Corinthians
What does Aquinas say about conscience?
“Recognise that we have done or not done something”
What does Fletcher say about conscience?
“Conscience is merely a word for our attempts to make decisions creatively, constructively, fittingly”
What is Fletcher’s controversial opinion about down’s syndrome?
“down’s is not a person… put them away”
