situation ethics

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  • Situation ethics: Love out rules fixed rules. The moral theory which requires the application of love to every unique situation
  • Metaethics: ethics related to justification ethics and the meaning of language used
  • Personalism: the belief that all good is always good for a person
  • Legalism: reduces the moral life to a system of rules; person should come first
  • Antinomianism: rules and principles should be rejected; only our own choices matter
  • Pragmatism: seeking practical solutions; not abstract ones
  • Relativism: the moral act should be relative to the needs of the performer and the situation
  • Positivism: the belief in God of love and to love as the main requirement
  • Teleological theories: any theory in which goodness or rightness is determined by the outcome
  • Deontological theories: an ethical theory that ignores the outcomes and concentrates on whether the act is good in itself
  • Agape: love in Greek
  • Altruism: any theory which puts the needs of others before those of oneself
  • Legalistic (or nomistic) ethics is focused on fixed rules and anti-nomian (or anti-legalistic ethics) against rules impulsive in situations.
  • The six propositions of situation ethics are: 1) only one thing is good which is love, 2) the ruling norm of Christian decision is love, 3.love and justice are the same, 4.love your neighbor, 5) only the end justifies the means,6) love decisions are made situationally
  • The strength of situation ethics is that it is a universal principle that can be applied to all situations.
  • The weakness of situation ethics is that it doesn’t define situation and it’s hard to identify the standard of value.
  • Plato A rational soul entrapped in matter (a fake reality)
  • Aristotle A rational animal (ζῳον λὸγον ἔχων
  • Epicurus A coincidental and temporary agglomerate of atoms
  • Jesus A creation (“son”) of God who deserves our compassion
  • Kant An enlightened and free person capable of making of responsible choices without the dictate of an external authority
  • Autonomy: the belief that we are self-directed beings, the center of our own worlds making our own free choices
  • A priori: true by definition
  • Heteronomy: for Kant, the state of being directed by others in our decision-making
  • Free will: the belief that we are able to make our own choices in life
  • Hypothetical imperative: we should act if we wish to achieve something if…then
  • First form of categorical imperative: we should only do what we want others to do
  • Second form of categorical imperative: things should be done for the good of the people and people should never be used for sake of others
  • Third form of the categorical imperative: we should treat everyone as the people for whom good must be done
  • Immortality: the belief that we will live forever in the afterlife
  • Postulate: a principle so obvious that it needs no other justification