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Relativist and Christian 1960s A middle way based on selfless love Four working principles Six fundamental principlesTRANSCRIPT
Tips for revision Issues that have been asked about less:
Genetic Engineering Embryo Research Right to a Child
Theories that have been asked about less: Absolutism and Relativism Natural Law Kant Preference Utilitarianism
Tips for revision Past papers
All past questions are in the back of your booklets
Example essays Moodle
Key terms We will have a key terms test in next
week’s lesson
Situation EthicsRelativist
and Christian
1960s
A middle way based on
selfless love
Four working
principles
Six fundamental
principles
Four Working Principles Pragmatism
What you propose must work in practice Relativism
In every situation we should act out of love, but what love requires will be relative to the particular situation
Positivism A value judgement needs to be made, giving
first place to love Personalism
Situation ethics is focused on what is best for the people involved in any situation
Six Fundamental Principles
1. Love only is always good Love is the only thing that is intrinsically good
– it is the only absolute2. Love is the only norm
Love is the only rule that people must follow – this self-giving love allows people the freedom and responsibility to make their own choices
3. Justice is love distributed Justice will follow naturally from love – agape
love involves loving all our neighbours
Six Fundamental Principles
4. Love is not liking Love has no favourites – it does not give
special treatment to those we like but treats everyone the same
5. Love justifies its means Love must be the final end, not a means to an
end – as long as the end is love any action can be justified
6. Love decides there and then The loving thing to do will depend on the
situation – we cannot have fixed ideas in mind because this will cloud our moral judgements
Natural LawAbsolutist Catholic
Goodness = fulfilment of purpose
Worship God
Live in an ordered society
Reproduce
Educate
childrenPrese
rve life
Primary PreceptsSecondary Precepts
Aristotle’s four causes - purpose
Real and apparent goodsFour levels of law
UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
More deontological than Bentham
Relativist
Individuals must be protectedRules are needed to
protect the common good
Universalizability
Competent judges
Quality of pleasure: higher and lower pleasures
Raised as a Utilitarian