Situation Ethics Quotes Flashcards
(42 cards)
Morality
Fletcher
“The morality of an action depends on the situation”
Morality
Whitehead
“The simple-minded use of the notions of ‘right and wrong’ is one of the chief obstacles to the process of understanding”
Law
Fletcher
“No casuistry at all may reveal a punishing and sadistic use of law to hurt people instead of helping them”
Antinomianism
Fletcher
“It is literally unprincipled, purely ad hoc and casual. They follow no forecastavble course from one situation to another. They are exactly anarchic i.e. without a rule”
Situation Ethics
Fletcher
“Follows a moral law or violates it according to loves need”
Law
Paul Tilich
“love is the ultimate law”
Antinomianism
James Childress
“Even though Fletcher rejects both, he appears ti fear the tyranny of legalism more than the anarchy of antinomianism”
Agape
Paul Tilich
“The law of love is the ultimate law because it is the negation of law; it is absolute because it concerns everything”
Legalism
Fletcher
“With this approach one enters into every decision making process encumbered with a whole apparatus of prefabricated rules and reguations”
Boss Principle
Fletcher
“This is the radical simplicity of the Gospels ethics, even though ut can lead situationally to the most complicated, head aching, heart breaking calculations and grey rather than black or white decisions”
Virtues
Fletcher
“Augustine was right to make love the source principle, the hinge principle upon which all other ‘virtues’ hang, whether ‘cardinal’ or “theological’”
Agape
Fletcher
“Moral Principles can be cast aside in certain situations if love is best served… and goodwill at work in partnership with reason”
Pragmatism
Fletcher
“In the chair, at the head of the conference table”
Agape
St Paul
“Now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
Love is the only norm
Fletcher
“To love christianity is a matter of attitude, not of feeling. Love is discerning and critical; it is not sentimental”
Love and Justice are the same
Paul Tilich
“Love without justice is a body without a backbone”
Relativism
“Situation Ethics relativises the absolute. It does not absolute the relative”
Pragmatism
“Pragmatism is, to be plain spoken, a practical or success posture”
Relativism
Fletcher
“There must be an absolute or norm of some kind if there is to be any true relativity”
Love is not liking
“Love wills the neighbours good whether we like him or not”
‘Love only is always good’
“Only one ‘thing’ is intrinsically good; namely, love: nothing else at all”
Positivism
Fletcher
“The christian does not understand God in terms of love, he understands love in terms of God as seen in Jesus Christ.”
Personalism
“Man was not made for the sabbath, but the sabbath for man”
Teleologicalness of situation ethics
“Unless some purpose or end is in view, to justify or sanctity it, any action we take is literally meaningless”
