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Ethics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Richard Mouw argued that just because Jesus said agape was the greatest commandment, that doesn’t rule out the relevance of other laws. Jesus did indeed say to love your neighbour as yourself. However, he also said many other laws. They should all be followed.
    - - Therefore, the purpose of Christians is agape rather than duty, he called this a Law of Love
    - - Neil Messer
        judges Situation Ethics as ‘not worn well’ – meaning that it is now so out of touch with modern world because it relies on New Testament which is outdated and was nothing more than Fletcher’s curiosity in joining the fight against legalism.
  - - - They take a realistic account of the fallen, broken and complex world
      - The propositions are practical and realistic.
    - - Love is the only thing that intrinsically has value, therefore the goodness of an action can be determined by how loving it is
      - Kant's example of the axe murderer, lying is correct here because it is through the agape love
        
        Could possibly justify immoral actions under the notion of love, cannot know the consequences of this act, may not be the most loving, this is why you cannot relativise a principle
    - - Laws should not be obeyed for the sake of law, love must be prioritised
        
        Love is completely subjective and therefore situation ethics will become individualistic, Pope Pius XII rejects it
      - Jesus' clash with the Pharisees, he replaces the rules of the Torah with the rule of love
    - - Love cannot exist without justice because it is the practical application of this construct, it is only loving if it can be just for the whole community
      - If love was fairly distributed, there would be no injustice
    - - Love is not sentimental or erotic, it is a deliberate choice rather than an attitude and a feeling
        
        This makes agape universalizable because it is not subject to prejudice or bias
      - If love was for the sake of love for anyone, there would be no conditions and so uncalculative
      - Jesus, agape is particularly interested in loving those who others find to be unlikeable, as Jesus modelled for us then he went out of his way to befriend tax collectors such as Zacchaeus.
    - - If the action is bad, only a loving outcome can justify it because it means it was ultimately for the betterment of society
        
        The doctrine of the Fall shows that we have limited ability to calculate, predict and control the consequences of our actions. D.Z. Phillips says we can never be truly confident that we’ve done ‘the right thing’.
      - Bonhoffer link, duty to protect religion and disobey the law in order to practice faith
    - - Decisions should not be made prescriptively, it allows one to be sensibly brave and make their own choices, a greater level of autonomy that allows human growth
  - - - John McQuarrie argued that situation ethics is fundamentally individualistic. It could never be used as the basis of a social morality because if an ethic is to work for the whole of society then it needs to offer solutions for communities and groups of people.
        
        William Barclay argues that we are often concerned with our own interests before the interests of others.
  - - - Aristotle
        Even if a situation is justified the act of adultery can never be justified