Situation Ethics: Context Flashcards

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Situation Ethics: Context, the church

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  • “abstain from sexual intercourse outside marriage”
  • still very conservative
  • worried about a moral fall in society
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Situation Ethics: Context, natural law

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  • Roman Catholic Church used it to make moral rules
  • the main concepts:
    Preserve life
    Reproduction
    Order in society
    Worship
    Learning
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Situation Ethics: Context, Divine Command Ethics

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  • thing are right bc god willed them to be so
  • absolutist theory
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Situation Ethics: Context, Social Contetx

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  • black power
  • hippies
  • LGBT protests
  • counterculture
  • Civil rights
  • 60s, rejecting authority
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Situation Ethics: Context, Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • free love
  • gov should have zero to do with marriage, sex, birthcontrol
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Situation Ethics: Context, John Robinson

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  • 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
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