Situation Ethics: Context

Question 1

Situation Ethics: Context, the church

Answer 1

• “abstain from sexual intercourse outside marriage”
• still very conservative
• worried about a moral fall in society

Question 2

Situation Ethics: Context, natural law

Answer 2

• Roman Catholic Church used it to make moral rules
• the main concepts:
  Preserve life
  Reproduction
  Order in society
  Worship
  Learning

Question 3

Situation Ethics: Context, Divine Command Ethics

Answer 3

• thing are right bc god willed them to be so
• absolutist theory

Question 4

Situation Ethics: Context, Social Contetx

Answer 4

• black power
• hippies
• LGBT protests
• counterculture
• Civil rights
• 60s, rejecting authority

Question 5

Situation Ethics: Context, Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 5

• free love
• gov should have zero to do with marriage, sex, birthcontrol

Question 6

Situation Ethics: Context, John Robinson

Answer 6

• influenced by “man come of age” Bonhoeffer
• we aren in a place in our evolution, than we can make decisions without god
• radical view of god: rejects 3 story universe, saying god is fudementally here but not above us
• ethics to do with love