Karteikarten
Situation ethics (not complete)
Karten in diesem Stapel (28)
- 1Define justice.Refers to notions of fair distribution of benefits for all. Fletcher sees justice as 'tough love'
- 2Define pragmatism.Acting, in moral situations, in a practical way as opposed to by ideology
- 3Define relativism.The rejection of absolute moral standards, such as laws or rights. Good and bad are relative to an individual or a community (or love)
- 4Define positivism.Proposes something as true or good without demonstrating it. Fletcher posits love as good
- 5Define personalism.Ethics centered on people, rater than laws or objectives
- 6Define conscience.A faculty within us, moral reasoning, insights from God or psychological. Fletcher described it as function as opposed to faculty
- 7Define teleological ethics.Moral goodness determined by the result of the action
- 8Define legalistic ethics.Law based moral decision-making
- 9Define antinomian ethics.Does not recognise the role of law in morality.
- 10Define agape love.Unconditional love, only ethical norm in situationism
- 11Define extrinsically good.Good defined with reference to the end rather than good in and of itself
Fletcher argues only love was intrinsically good - 12What were Fletcher's six fundamental principles of the situationist?1) 'Only one thing is intrinsically good; namely, love: nothing else at all'
2) ‘The ruling norm of Christian decision is love: nothing else’
3) 'Love and justice are the same, for justice is love distributed, nothing else'
4) 'Love wills the neighbor’s good whether we like him or not'
5) 'Only the end justifies the means; nothing else'
6) 'Love's decisions are made situationally, not prescriptively' - 13What were Fletcher's four working principles?- Pragmatism: being practical as opposed to always following belief in ideologies or systems
- Relativism: ‘it relativizes the absolute, it does not absolutize the relative’
- Positivism: love is posited as true or good without demonstrating this is the case. SE relies on Christians choosing to first gve place to love
- Personalism: To put people first and to take responsibility for the other person - 14How do we genuinely define religious ethics?- Moral rules
- Behaviors amd virtues
- A way of life
- Deontological - 15Where are the roots of situation ethics?- New testament
- Jesus set aside rules - 16Who was Joseph Fletcher?Ordained priest and American academic
- 17What were Fletcher's criticisms of legalistic ethics?- Can lead to a legalistic mindset
- This will cover all eventualities
- Legalist must constantly add to their law book to justify actions
- To be moral means in this case to follow the correct moral law
- - 18What were Fletcher's criticisms of antinomian ethics?- Unprincipled
- Ad hoc
- Anarchic - 19How did Fletcher develop situation ethics?- The situationist has respect for the laws, may often follow the laws and be informed by tradition
- However, he is free to make the right
choice according to the situation
- Love drives the situation - 20Who were Fletcher's influences?- Bultmann
- Barth
- Bonhoeffer - 21What did Bultmann say to support Fletcher's ideas?- Argued against the idea of Jesus sought to establish new ethical ideology
- No ethics other than to love the neighbour - 22What did Barth say to support Fletcher's ideas?- 'God's commanding' is not a rule
- Outside chances to break moral rules - 23What did Bonhoeffer say to support Fletcher's ideas?Moral decision making should be based on:
- The need of the neighbor
- The model of Jesus' behavior - 24Where were the origins of agape love found?The old testament
- 25What does it say about Agape in the Gospels?- Love thy neighbor Mark 12:30-31
- Love is self-sacrificing not self-satisfying
- Agape by God sending Jesus to die John 3:16 - 26What did Bishop John Robinson say about the ethics of Jesus?No one ethical system that can claim to be christian
- 27In situation ethics, what is the conscience?- Not a bag of reliable rules and principles
- Does not guide human action
- Not a part of the human being
- Not a noun, a verb - 28Is situation ethics really religious?- Fletcher became an atheist
- Churches rejects his account
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- A level RS Karteikarten am Situation ethics (not complete), erstellt von Robin Connolly am 04/05/2017.
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