Situation Ethics Six Fundamental Principles

Situation Ethics Six Fundamental Principles

1. 1) Nothing is good in itself except love.

2. 2) The ruling norm of Christian decision making is love and nothing else.

   • "I have not came to abolish the prophets but to fulfil them" Jesus, Matthew 5:17 -19
     • "We love because he loved us first" St Paul

3. 3) Love and Justice are distributed

   • Fletcher argues that agape means that standing up for justice

4. 4) Love wills the neighbour's good, whether we like them or not.

   • As agape is selfless we should not love for reward as there are no personal interest.

5. 5) Only the ends justifies the means

   • Love is the end that is not sought - agape is a consiquentialist theort

6. 6) Love's decisions are made in the context of particular situations - the decisions of love are made situationally and not prescriptively

   • Relates to the relativism of SE. It always depends on the situation and how love should be applied