situation ethics Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| pragmatism | must be practical in daily life |
| relativism | no fixed rules. the context of the situation should be implemented in what decision you do. |
| positivism | puts faith before reasoning |
| personalism | people's choice |
| legalism | uses preformulated rules to guide behavior. strictly followed |
| antinomianism | abandons all rules. relies on conscience or the holy spirit to guide behavior. leads to anarchy |
| situationism | lies between antinomism and legalism. approaches moral decision making with preformulated rules but is prepared for these to be broken. |
| what rule is absolute for situationalists | agape is the only unbreakable principle |
| what is the first working principle | 1. pragmatism. moral actions are those achieve desired results. |
| second working principle | 2. relativism. context should influence the solution selected for any moral dilema. |
| third working principle | 3. positivism. moral decision making relies on values, not facts. it is impossible to deduce how to act from how things are. |
| what did david hume say which agrees with positivism | his 'is-ought problem', which states thst it is impossible to derive an 'ought' form an 'is' |
| fourth working principle | 4. personalism. moral decision making should be personalistic, it should be concerned with subjects, not objects. |
| how many propositions are there in situation ethics | 6 propositions |
| 1st prop | love is the only thing that is intrinsically good. |
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