Episode 12, Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics (Part I)

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Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

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🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of utilitarianism. Just kidding, it's the Christian version.
0:07.4	In the words of Joseph Fletcher, as we shall see, Christian situation ethics has only one norm or
0:13.8	principle or law. Call it what you will. That is binding and unexceptionable. Always good
0:19.6	and right regardless of circumstances.
0:22.1	That is love, the agape of the summary commandment to love God and the neighbor.
0:27.3	Everything else without exception, all laws and rules and principles and ideals and norms
0:32.1	are only contingents and only if they happen to serve love in any situation.
0:38.3	So today we're looking at Situation Ethics by Joseph Fletcher.
0:42.3	The main reading is Situation Ethics by Joseph Fletcher in 1966.
0:46.3	In part one, we're looking at Love, Agape and the Six Propositions.
0:49.3	In part two, the four working principles and conscience.
0:52.3	In part three, application and part four
0:54.8	criticisms analyses and discussion don't forget to subscribe to us we are at the
1:00.2	pan side cast and we've got loads of great feedback recently from our last
1:04.4	podcast and we're we're on a home run this is great we're enjoying it like us
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1:19.8	Mike check one, two.
1:23.3	Mike check one, two.
1:26.1	Mike.
1:26.5	Mike. In a world where sex, drugs, rock and roll, the M6 toll are out of control.
1:40.4	One man tries to bring Christianity into this mess.
1:43.9	He doesn't like rules, but he does not like rules?
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