Rs Ethics Situation Ethics

• Pragmatism is acting in a way that is practical and useful rather than theoretical or abstract.
• relativism is the ides there is no absolute truths only different opinions focussed on Jesus' teaching of love and forgiveness
• positivism is a method of showing the truth or good without any judgements
• personalism is ethics based on people rather than principles or laws
• 1. love is innate and universal as the basis of all human relationships
• 2. love is the guide of moral decisions and the source of happiness
• 3. love and justice is the same thing
• 4. love will do neighbours good whether you like them or not
• 5. the end (love) justifies the means or reason
• 6. each action must be justified for each situation seperatley
• strength: Jesus the scolar argues the sabbath was made for man not the other way around. Implying God's work was good
• weakness: Tillich argues against and says 'allowing people to make individual moral choices will lead to chaos'
• strength: Bowie is for and says it is practical and fits with the modern day world.
• weakness is that it is derived from religious roots so not all non-religious people will agree
• weakness is that love is subjective and may be hard to follow with no fixed laws
• strengths, relativist so can account to different situations seperatley
• Religious people will like to follow the preaching of Jesus
• Legalistic ethics means it is derived from fixed laws and rules
• Aquinas would criticise since he liked fixed laws like his natural law ethics and primary precepts
• fletcher brought situation ethics from Jesus' teachings of love