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In which year did Fletcher write his book Situation Ethics?
1952
1962
1966
1956
1. What does ‘personalism’ mean in Fletcher’s for working principles?
Primary considering the individual rather than any rules.
Ethics which look at the end result in order to determine the morality of an action.
Practicality; the action chosen to be practically applicable.
Agapeic love
What are teleological ethics?
Primary considering the individual rather than any rules.
Practicality; the action chosen to be practically applicable.
Ethics which look at the end result in order to determine the morality of an action.
Agapeic love
What does ‘pragmatism’ mean?
Agapeic love
Practicality; the action chosen to be practically applicable.
Primary considering the individual rather than any rules.
Ethics which look at the end result in order to determine the morality of an action.
According to Fletcher, what is the only thing that is intrinsically good?
Love distribution
Being without and opposed to having rules or laws.
Conscience
Agapeic love
What does Fletcher say that justice consists of?
Conscience
Pragmatism
Love distribution
Personalism
What is meant by antinomianism?
Being without and opposed to having rules or laws.
Following the rules
Love distribution
Agapeic love
1. Fletcher’s four principles involve relativism, pragmatism, Personalism and what else?
Conscience
Personalism
pragmatism
relativism
What is the fifth of Fletchers six propositions?
Christian decision making is based on love
Love wants the good for anyone, whoever they are
Love is acted out situationally not prescriptivally
If love is the end result, then any means are justified.
Does Fletcher agree that the morality of an action should be judged by its consequences?
Yes
No
Each situation should be judged according to its own circumstances rather than according to the rules already set.
Yes
No
What might a follower of Situation Ethics think about a law that completely banned Euthanasia?
Wrong
Right
Right in some circumstances
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