Six Fundamental Principles

Question 1

Love only is always good

Answer 1

.Love is the one intrinsic good and the only regulative principle of Christian ethics.
.Love is only a predicate, not objectively real
.We must act so that more good will occur than with any possible alternatives

Question 2

Love is the only norm

Answer 2

Love replaces law but employs it where it seems worthwhile, love can break any/all of the Ten Commandments.

Question 3

Love and justice are the same

Answer 3

.Love and justice has to be United because justice is nothing more than love working out its problems
.SE + Utilitarianism should form a coalition with the utilitarian goal of happiness and pleasure being replaced by agape and Bentham‘s pleasure calculation should be replaced by the agapeic calculus.

Question 4

Love and liking are not the same

Answer 4

. Love is not sentimental or emotional but cognitive you should wear yourself to promote other peoples well-being.
.Love needs calculation it is right to deal lovingly with enemy.

Question 5

Love justifies its means

Answer 5

.Fletcher argued that if the end does not justify the means what does? Nothing.
.We need to consider four factors when judging situation; the end, mean, motive and consequences.
.The moral responsibility of love is no light thing.

Question 6

Love decides there and then (situationally)

Answer 6

.People want the crutch of an ethical system to lean on - cowering behind the security of rules – we must accept that morality has grey areas that we must deal with
. Jesus was a situationist