PHI 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Situational Ethics, Human Sexuality
Situational ethics
- What petcher was saying and how it works
1)PRAGMATISM..what is the most loving thing to do
- Love (driven)
- Love (resulting)
You cannot do an act lovingly and not expect it to be moral
2) RELATIVISM..avoid legalism in moral judgement, focus on action and intent
Law / Love (law over love)
What matters is not law, but love itself
3) POSITIVISM.. golden rule - love thy neighbor as thyself - do no harm
4) PERSONALISM..who is helped not obedience to law
..good for individual
..distinction between justice and law
Prepositions
a) Only one intrinsic good and that is love
Agape (spiritual, other oriented, selfless, mirrors god’s love for us
god’s unselfish love for us, which god’s grace we can approximate
Love =
Eros (physical, selfish, means to an end)
“we have to love someone under a condition”
ORIGINAL SIN DEFORMS OUR ABILITY TO LOVE
b) love alone should shape moral decisions
c) love and justice are the same
d) love wills what is good whether we like our neighbor or not
e) only the end justifies the means, nothing else - all moral actions are a means to an end,
both the means and the end must be moral and loving
if you do something that was good and the outcome was evil then you’ve done something wrong
IS THIS LIKE NIHILISM??
→ nothing matters only love matters
if you gave the food to the person lovingly, it should be fine
Document Summary
What petcher was saying and how it works. 1)pragmatismwhat is the most loving thing to do. You cannot do an act lovingly and not expect it to be moral: relativismavoid legalism in moral judgement, focus on action and intent. What matters is not law, but love itself: positivism golden rule - love thy neighbor as thyself - do no harm, personalismwho is helped not obedience to law. Prepositions: only one intrinsic good and that is love. Agape (spiritual, other oriented, selfless, mirrors god"s love for us god"s unselfish love for us, which god"s grace we can approximate. We have to love someone under a condition . How do we know everyone has the same definition of love? separation of mind and body. Nadia"s explanation of love of a child - broken human being. Whipping example it helped in a way (do humans only learn from pain?) Nadia - talking about how your childhood experiences relate to your life.
