legalistic ethics

• has predefined rules and regulations that direct how you behave
• What are some examples of legalistic ethics?

  Judaism at the time of Jesus had a legalistic character

  Christianity also shows legalistic features based on biblical commandments or precepts shown by Aquinas
• Fletcher believes that the legalist must continually create laws to cover eventualities, leading to a web of laws
• Fletcher rejected the leaglistic approach that are based on fixed laws