Situation Ethics Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Fletcher on people and things
A
we ought to love people and use things; the essence of immorality is to love things and use people
2
Q
Fletcher on “love is not liking”
A
love wills the neighbour’s good whether we like him or not
3
Q
Fletcher on love justifying the means
A
only the end justifies the means; nothing else
4
Q
Fletcher on love deciding there and then
A
love’s decisions are made situationally, not prescriptively
5
Q
Fletcher on legalism
A
any web thus woven sooner or later chokes its weavers
6
Q
Fletcher on deontology
A
love people not prohibitions
7
Q
Jesus on personalism
A
the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath
8
Q
William Barclay on SE
A
could only work “if all men were Jesus”
(against SE)
9
Q
Robinson on SE
A
“the only ethic for man come of age”
