Revise Situation Ethics: key terms & concepts for
AQA Religious Studies AS level: Religion & Ethics
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| 120125630 | Agape | Disinterested, selfless, unconditional love - the love exhibited by Jesus according to Fletcher | 0 | |
| 120125631 | Legalism | Law-based approach criticised by Fletcher for tendency to become cold & inflexible e.g Kantian ethics or Catholic Natural Law | 1 | |
| 120125632 | Antinomianism | Lawlessness & spontaneity - the other extreme to legalism - for Fletcher goes too far & provides insufficient moral guidance | 2 | |
| 120125633 | The four working principles | Relativism; pragmatism; positivism; personalism - used in making moral decisions | 3 | |
| 120125634 | Six fundamental principles | Six ways of defining & explaining what Situationists mean by 'agape' | 4 | |
| 120125635 | Pragmatism | One of the four working principles: states that an action must 'work' (i.e. produce a loving outcome) in order to be right | 5 | |
| 120125636 | Personalism | One of the four working principles: states that an action must put people & loving outcomes before rules in order to be right | 6 | |
| 120125637 | Positivism | One of the four working principles: states that an action must accept the law of love as the most important law governing human behaviour | 7 | |
| 120125638 | Relativism | One of the four working principles: states that an action must avoid words like 'always' & 'never' & take each situation on its own merits because "situations alter rules" | 8 | |
| 120125639 | Proportionalism | The principle that Christian moral laws should be upheld unless there are better (proportional)reasons to set them aside | 9 |
