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The four working principles
Cards in this deck (5)
- 1Fletcher's bookSituation ethics the new morality
- 2PragmatismSolution has to be practical
Influenced by William James
It is no good suggesting a solution to a problem because it is a good solution on rational,philosophical grounds if that solution falls flat in practice
"The good is what works" - 3RelativismSituationist Avoids "absolutely"
Object: 'agape is love'
Every situation is unique
A response is antinomian and typically random as this would make it anarchic
Situation is always relative,not to its own circumstances but to agape. - 4PositivismStatements of faith:accepted voluntarily and reason is used to work within ones faith.
Understands love in terms of God as seen in Christ - 5PersonalismEthics deals with people
Concern for people rather than things.
Subject rather than object
Command to live people to live people and not laws or principles
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