4 presuppositions and 6 propositions

• The 4 presuppositions:

  1. Pragmatism
  2. Relativism
  3. Positivism
  4. Personalism
• The conscience is an innate faculty that makes moral judgements and internalises the values of society
• Fletcher's six propositions:

  1. Love is always good
  2. Love in the only norm
  3. Love and justice are the same
  4. Love is not just liking
  5. Love justifies the means
  6. Love decides there and then
• When Fletcher says "love" he means the christian idea of agape: a selfless and unconditional love
• "so faith, love and hope abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love"
• Only one thing is intrinsically good and it is love
• Only in God does love have real existence. For the rest of us, love is like a predicate, it is not objectively real
• The ruling norm of christianity is love. Love replaces laws
• Justice is love working things out
• Situation ethics seeks the goal of the most love in every possible situation. Does this through the agapeic calculator
• Love is about will and the will to promote other's wellbeing
• Willed love makes no judgement
• If an action has no end/ purpose, the action is meaningless