Rs Ethics Situation Ethics

Cards (20)

  • 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