Situation Ethics Mindmap
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- Situation Ethics
- Four Working Principles
- Pragmatism: practical in reality
- Relativism: there should be no fixed rules
- Positivism: put faith before reasoning and logic
- Personalism: people should be at the centre of the theory
- Six Fundamental Principles
- Love is the only absolute
- Christian decision making is based on love
- Justice is distributed love
- Love wants the good for anyone, no matter who they are
- Only the end justifies the means
- Love is situationally based, not prescriptively
- Weaknesses of Situation Ethics
- It is human nature to love family and friends more than strangers
- Situation ethics does not provide any kind of guidance on topics that are external from love
- Situation Ethics does not actually provide a coherent definition of what love is
- It is difficult to appreciate the unintended consequence or outcomes of our actions
- Agape love is unrealistic and
- Four Working Principles
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