Situation Ethics QUOTES

Question 1

10 words, Joseph Fletcher, Situiation Eithics, 1966:69

Answer 1

“Love alone is always good and right in every situation.”

Question 2

14 words, 1 Corinthians 13:13

Answer 2

“Faith, hope and love abide, these three, but the greatest of all is love.”

Question 3

12 words, John 13:34

Answer 3

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another.”

Question 4

11 words, Luke 10:27, 28

Answer 4

“‘Love your neighbour as yourself’. Jesus replied, ‘Go and do likewise’”

Question 5

12 words, Joseph Fletcher, Situiation Eithics, 1966:70

Answer 5

“There can be and often is a conflict between law and love.”

Question 6

30 words, William Barclay, Ethics in a Permissive Society p189

Answer 6

“Too much law means the obliteration of the individual; too much individualism means a weakening of the law … there is a place for law as the encourager of morality.”

Question 7

24 words, POPE PIUS XII in 1952

Answer 7

“An individualistic and subjective appeal to the concrete circumstances of actions to justify decisions in opposition to the NATURAL LAW or God’s revealed will.”

Question 8

17 words, William Temple (refering to Aquinas)

Answer 8

“High authority has held that a starving man should rather steal a loaf than die of hunger.”

Question 9

13 words, Thomas Aquinas, de Malo; Q2 A5c

Answer 9

“Every moral act must be good or evil by reason of some circumstance.”