Situation Ethics

Question 1

What is situation ethics based on?

Answer 1

Doing the most loving thing

Question 2

Is situation ethics subjective or objective?

Answer 2

Subjective

Question 3

Who says that other virtues such as ‘jou, peace and generosity’ are equally as important as love?

Answer 3

St Paul

Question 4

What is the golden rule?

Answer 4

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

Question 5

What is the name of the view that rejects rules and regulations?

Answer 5

Antinomialism

Question 6

What word refers to the belief that rules and regulations should be followed to the letter?

Answer 6

legalism

Question 7

What is justice in situation ethics?

Answer 7

Love distributed

Question 8

What one thing is intrinsically good?

Answer 8

Love

Question 9

According to flethcher what makes a lie right?

Answer 9

Its loving purpose

Question 10

State the 4 working principles

Answer 10

Pragmatism
Relativiam
Posivitism
Personalism

Question 11

Define agapaeic love

Answer 11

Giving, non-reciprocal love which seeks the best interest of you neighbour.

Question 12

Why do some Christian groups reject SE as a chrstian ethical theory?

Answer 12

It rejects the 10 commandments as being absolute

Question 13

What is relativism?

Answer 13

That there are no absolute rules

Question 14

Which scholar identified situation ehtics as being weak for being individualistic?

Answer 14

John Macqurne

Question 15

What does situation ethics reject?

Answer 15

Legalism & antinomialism

Question 16

What is the first proposition?

Answer 16

‘Only one thing is intrinsically good, namely love’

Question 17

What is the third proposition?

Answer 17

‘Love and justice are the same for justice os love distributed’

Question 18

According to Fletcher, what is the only moral law that has been revealed by God?

Answer 18

Love thy neighbour

Question 19

When did the cultural transformation take place?

Answer 19

1960

Question 20

How did the cultural transformation impact christianity?

Answer 20

Left christians questioning where their morality lay and it made them ask what role christianity and religion would play in their lives.

Question 21

Finish the Sixth propostition, ‘Love’s descisions are made….

Answer 21

Situationally not prescriptively.”

Question 22

What is fletchers cloak and dagger argument?

Answer 22

A female agnet sleeping with the enemy spy to bring war to an end sooner saving thousands of lives

Question 23

What does it means love justifies the means

Answer 23

An action is justified as long as there is a loving outcome

Question 24

Give 2 examples of when Jesus takes a situationist approach

Answer 24

Woman caught commiting adultery
Disciples in the cornfields

Question 25

What does fletcher mean when he says love is the only norm?

Answer 25

Love replaces law and agape love replaces old testament

Question 26

What types of christian ethics does Fletcher reject?

Answer 26

Natural moral law Divine commandment ethics

Question 27

What is personalism?

Answer 27

The proposition that shows people are to be put first in situation ethics not law or anything else

Question 28

What is posivitism?

Answer 28

The proposition that posits love as good and true and belief in reality.

Question 29

What is pragmatism?

Answer 29

A propostiton based on experience not theory.

Question 30

What is the conscience according to fletcher?

Answer 30

The process of weighing things up

Question 31

What does situation ethics promote according to its supportes?

Answer 31

Individual autonomy

Question 32

What does Kierkegaard say about situation ethics?

Answer 32

A divine commandment from God transcends ethics

Question 33

What is individual autonomy?

Answer 33

The capacity to decide for oneslef regardless of any particualr moral content

Question 34

How does situation ethics promote social justice?

Answer 34

It forces people to analyse situations in terms of the desired ends which motivates them to think for the better and challenge discrimination.

Question 35

What is joseph fletchers theory sometimes called?

Answer 35

Agapaestic Calculus

Question 36

What is the name of Joseph Fletcher's Book?

Answer 36

Situation ethics: The new morality

Question 37

Finish the Quote by Joseph Fletcher, "Love relativises the....

Answer 37

absolute, it does not absolute the relative.'

Question 38

What was Joseph Fletchers example of sacrificial adultery?

Answer 38

Prisoner of war sleeping with guard to get pregnant and be released.

Question 39

Name 4 possible critisisms of situation ethics

Answer 39

-Vague -Too individualistic -Gape love ignores special duties found in special relationships -Puts too much responsibility on the individual

Question 40

How is FLetchers definition of conscience different from natural law?

Answer 40

It is a verb- something u do, a function rather than a faculty.

Question 41

What is pope Pius' critisism pf situation ethics?

Answer 41

'situation ethics leaves man to itself' once agian individualtistic argument

Question 42

State a quote that show fletcher rejects natural moral law

Answer 42

' There are no universal laws held by all men- everwhere at all times'

Question 43

Finish the quote from Jesus. "I have not come to.......

Answer 43

abolish the law but to uphold and fulfill them."

Question 44

What hyear did fletcher write his book?

Answer 44

1966

Question 45

What are teleological ethics?

Answer 45

Ethics that looks at the product or consequences of an action to decide whether it is right or wrong.