Situation Ethics Quotes

"The [blank_start]law of love[blank_end] is the ultimate law because it is the [blank_start]negation[blank_end] of law; it is [blank_start]absolute[blank_end] because it concerns everything [blank_start]concrete[blank_end] [...]" - Paul [blank_start]Tillich[blank_end] - Systematic Theology (19[blank_start]51[blank_end])

1st [blank_start]proposition[blank_end] - "Only one thing is [blank_start]intrinsically good[blank_end]; namely love: nothing else at all." - Joseph Fletcher ([blank_start]1963[blank_end])

2nd proposition - "The ruling [blank_start]norm[blank_end] of Christian [blank_start]decision[blank_end] is love: nothing else." - Fletcher ([blank_start]1963[blank_end])

3rd proposition - "Love and [blank_start]Justice[blank_end] are the same, for Justice is Love [blank_start]distributed[blank_end], nothing else." - Fletcher (19[blank_start]63[blank_end])

4th proposition - "Love wills the [blank_start]neighbour[blank_end]'s good, whether we [blank_start]like[blank_end] him or not." - Fletcher ([blank_start]1963[blank_end])

5th proposition - "Only the [blank_start]end[blank_end] justifies the [blank_start]means[blank_end], nothing else." - Fletcher ([blank_start]1963[blank_end])

6th proposition - "Love's decisions are made [blank_start]situationally[blank_end], not [blank_start]prescriptively[blank_end]." - Fletcher ([blank_start]1963[blank_end]) (a priori)

SE - "[blank_start]relativises[blank_end] the absolute, it does not [blank_start]absolutise[blank_end] the relative." - Fletcher ([blank_start]1963[blank_end]) - [blank_start]Relativism[blank_end] - Four Working [blank_start]Principles[blank_end]

"The [blank_start]situationist[blank_end] avoids words like "[blank_start]never[blank_end]" and "[blank_start]perfect[blank_end]" and "[blank_start]always[blank_end]" and "[blank_start]complete[blank_end]" and he avoids the plague, as he avoids "[blank_start]absolutely[blank_end]"." - Fletcher (1963) - [blank_start]Relativism[blank_end] - Four Working Principles

Four Working Principles Definition - [blank_start]Pragmatism[blank_end] - Course of action must be practical and work

Four Working Principles Definition - [blank_start]Positivism[blank_end] - SE relies on fact person freely chooses to believe in agape love as described by Christianity.

Four Working Principles Definition - [blank_start]Personalism[blank_end] - Laws are for the benefit of the people; adhered to normally but broken if love demands it.

Four Working Principles Definition - [blank_start]Relativism[blank_end] - All situations - specific to individual circumstances

"There are no "[blank_start]values[blank_end]" in the sense of [blank_start]inherent[blank_end] goods - value is what happens to something when it happens to be [blank_start]useful[blank_end] to love working for the sake of [blank_start]persons[blank_end]." - Fletcher (1963) - [blank_start]Personalism[blank_end] - Four Working Principles

only ethic for the "[blank_start]man come of age[blank_end]" - Bishop John [blank_start]Robinson[blank_end] #1

"it will just end in [blank_start]moral chaos[blank_end]." - Bishop John [blank_start]Robinson[blank_end] #2

"Love itself, [blank_start]God[blank_end]'s love, is utterly [blank_start]disassociated[blank_end] from [blank_start]need[blank_end]. [...] [blank_start]complete[blank_end], self-[blank_start]sufficient[blank_end], eternally [blank_start]blessed[blank_end] [...]" - C.S. Lewis - [blank_start]Four[blank_end] Loves - Agape

Individual retains "a [blank_start]sphere[blank_end] of individual [blank_start]morality[blank_end]" - over which [blank_start]Church[blank_end] cannot exercise direct [blank_start]authority[blank_end]. - Karl [blank_start]Rahner[blank_end] (Catholic Theologian) #1

The [blank_start]Greatest[blank_end] [blank_start]Commandment[blank_end]: Mark [blank_start]12:30[blank_end] - "Love the Lord your God with all your [blank_start]heart[blank_end] [...] [blank_start]soul[blank_end] [...] [blank_start]mind[blank_end] [...] [blank_start]strength[blank_end] [...] Love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these."

Mark [blank_start]2:27[blank_end]: (23-28): "The [blank_start]Sabbath[blank_end] was made for [blank_start]man[blank_end], not [blank_start]man[blank_end] for the [blank_start]Sabbath[blank_end]." (love and people first, law second)

[blank_start]1[blank_end] Corinthians [blank_start]6:12[blank_end]: "Everything is [blank_start]permissible[blank_end] for me - but not everything is [blank_start]beneficial[blank_end]." (also 1 Cor. 10:23-33) - (Believer's [blank_start]Freedom[blank_end])

1 Corinthians [blank_start]13[blank_end]:4-8: "Love is [blank_start]patient[blank_end], love is [blank_start]kind[blank_end] [...] Love never [blank_start]fails[blank_end]."

"The Church must, therefore, act to [blank_start]prevent[blank_end] people from making [blank_start]bad[blank_end] decisions as well as [blank_start]encouraging[blank_end] and [blank_start]supporting[blank_end] them to make good ones [...] " - [blank_start]Karl Rahner[blank_end] (Catholic Theologian) #2

"Whether any form of [blank_start]sex[blank_end] is good or evil depends on whether [blank_start]love[blank_end] is fully [blank_start]served[blank_end]." - Fletcher ([blank_start]1963[blank_end])