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What was Kant's view on laws?
A legalist - laws are good.
Fletcher: "any web thus woven...."
sooner or later chokes its weavers
List the 4 presuppositions, in the right order fletcher gives them in his book:
Pragmatism, relativism, positivism, personalism
(supporting proposition that love is the only norm)
In what book does St Paul say we are now set free from the law?
Galatians
Who's pleasure calculus does Fletcher's agapeic calculus parallel?
Jeremy Bentham
Fletcher was an active christian in which church?
Episcopal church
Robinson said Fletcher's approach was the only ethic for... who?
'man come of age'
Fletcher says the christian 'understands love in terms of..."
"God as seen in christ"
Love is conative - what does that mean
brought about by human will, you should will yourself to love others
What is a humanist?
Why did Fletcher think christian morality needed reassessment?
(3 possible answers)
1. doubts about god's existenvce post-wars.
2. rise of science and discrediting the creation story.
3. deontological systems not dealing with modern problems (cloning, genetics)
In what book of the bible is the following found:
"the written code kills, but the spirit gives life"
2 Corinthians
Fletcher says the situationist avoids 4 specific words, thee same way you'd avoid the plague. What 4 words.
'never' 'always' 'complete' 'perfect'
How fletcher himself phrases the propositition that love and justice are the same: quote
"love and justice are the same, for justice is love distributed, nothing else"
What is Gnosticism?
claiming to have special knowledge, therefore believing that rules were no longer needed - they would just know what was right.
Who condemned situationism (in 1952) on the grounds that it would allow and justify birth control?
Pope Pius XII
William James:
'A pragmatist turns his back upon...'
2 things:
1. fixed principles
2. pretended absolutes
Why did John Robinson ultimately reject situation ethics?
It runs too great of a risk of descending into moral chaos.
List all 6 propositions:
1. love decides then and there
2. love is justice
3. love is not liking
4. love is the only norm
5. love is always good
6. love justifies the means
Literal translation of the word 'antinomianism', and the greek roots meanings:
"anti", "nomos"
Fletcher outlines 4 theories about conscience:
1. it is an innate faculty
2. it is guidance by the holy spirit
3. it is internalised societal values
4. conscience is our reason making judgement
What does Kierkegaard say about one specific commandment about love...
The commandment 'love thy neighbour as thyself' means 'thou shalt love thy self in the right way'
What did William Barclay argue?
In John 8, there is a story of a woman taken in the act of adultery. What would the Pharisees have done to her at this time?
(contrasts the loving approach jesus took)
would have stoned her in accordance with the Law of Moses, whereas Jesus refused to condemn her and just told her to sin no more.
Fletcher starts 'Situation Ethics' with an anecdote - what is it about
A friend who got in a cab, cab driver was a republican but claimed he wasn't voting for that candidate in the presidential election, despite all generations of his fam being republic, because sometimes... you have to do the right thing.