fletcher

• what does fletcher see the conscience as?

  a verb - and as agape love, making decisions situationally
• what 4 things about the conscience does fletcher reject?

  1. that it's an innate faculty
  2. that it's guidance by the holy spirit
  3. that it's the internalised values of society
  4. that it's reason making moral decisions (aquinas)
• fletcher doesn't see the conscience as a "thing" that we have but...?

  rather as a process/ something we do
• what is a direct quote from fletcher?

  "conscience is merely a word for our attempts to make decisions creatively, constructively, fittingly"
• when do we "do" our conscience?

  when we are deciding and calculating how agape love is best served in a situation
• to fletcher, where does the traditional error about the conscience lie?

  in thinking about the conscience as a noun, instead of as a verb
• what does fletcher mean by conscience as a verb, rather than a noun?

  the traditional error about the conscience lies in thinking of it as a thing, rather than as something we do
• (s) what does fletcher's view of the conscience resolve?

  the problem of the conscience not being a physical feature of the brain
• (s) how does fletcher resolve the problem of the conscience not being a physical feature of the brain?

  by explaining it as a thing we do, rather than as something that we have
• (s) how does fletcher show how the conscience functions as a verb?

  in the development of his situation ethics
• (s) what does fletcher's understanding also show?

  why different people make different moral decisions
• (w) what is fletcher's view dependant on?

  belief in God (positivism, in his situation ethics) - so his idea is still grounded in a religion
• (w) what does fletcher's view depend on using?

  his situation ethics
• (w) what does fletcher's view contradict?

  traditional christian understandings of the conscience as a faculty/thing we've been given by God
• what view of the conscience is fletcher?

  religious