Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Situation Ethics
1966
- Joseph Fletcher
- Agape
- one guiding principle
- 'selfless love'
- given constantly and unconditionally
- Greek word to describe God's love for humanity
- Relativistic
- no universal moral norms
- every situation has to be looked at independently
- Consequential
- moral judgements should be based on consequences
- Teleological
- concerned with end purpose
- Rejection
- Antinomianism
- 'against law'
- no obligation to follow law
- could be moral chaos
- Legalism
- exalts laws above everything else
- no choice
- 'middle way'
- no rules but one guiding principle
- 10 Principles
- 4 Working Principles
- Pragmatism
- practical
- Positivism
- most loving way is right thing to do
- Personalism
- put people first
- Relativism
- reject 'never' and 'always'
- 6 Fundamental
- 'the ruling norm of any Christian decision is love, nothing else.'
- 'only one thing is intrinsically good; namely, love; nothing else at all.'
- 'a loving end justifies the means.'
- 'love's decisions are made situationally, not prescriptively.'
- 'love and justice are the same, for justice is love distributed, nothing else.'
- 'love wills the good of others, regardless of feelings.'