Situation Ethics

Situation Ethics

1. Absolute

   • An ethical principal cannot be challenged

2. Agapeic

   • Measured by intensity, duration, and likelihood of giving rise to further pleasures.

3. Antinomianism

   • Should be no laws or principles governing human behaviour.

4. Autonomy

   • People should decide for themselves what is in their best interests.

5. Conative

   • Brought about by the human will

6. Normative Ethics

   • Rules or theory by which we make ethical judgements : laying down rules of acceptable behaviour.

7. Personalism

   • Morality is about persons, not rules.

8. Predicate

   • Love is a predicate so it describes action in a situation and is not a thing in itself.It is a formal principle expressing what kinds of real actions Christians are to call 'good'

9. Pragmatism

   • The presupposition that we should do what is pragmatic.... So what works in the situation

10. Relativism

    • morality is relative to the situation

11. Intrinsic good

    • Something that is good in and of itself

12. Humanism

    • Reliance is placed on human intelligence and will, rather than the supernatural

13. Divine command theory

    • That morality consists in following Gods absolute commands as laid down in scriptures.