- Processionism
- Deut. 19:15
- Context - text = con
- Hedonism: what is pleasurable is morally right
- antibiblical
- self-destructive
- utilitarianism: whatever benefits the majority is morally right
- generalism
- situationism: whatever is loving is morally right
- unqualified absolutism: lying is always wrong
- conflicting absolutism: lying is okay if it’s the lesser evil, but it’s never right
- graded absolutism: lying is right if it’s the lesser law being broken
- deontological: duty-bound
- rule determines the result
- rule-centered
- rule is good, regardless of the result
- result is always calculated w/i the rules
- doesn’t make room for grace and mercy
- teleological: goal-bound
- result determines the rule
- result is the basis for act
- rule is good because of the result
- result sometimes used to break the rules
- Joseph Fletcher (1905–1991), the father of situational ethics
- Situational ethics
- right between antinomianism and legalism
- the only law is love
- very pragmatic
- everything is relative and based on personal feelings
- only people are valuable
- Pre-modernity
- truth = from high authority
- authority = God
- man conforms to the way things are
- Modernity
- truth = from science and rationale
- authority = science
- man conforms to his own will
- Postmodernity
- truth = relative and personal
- authority = no one
- man brings himself in harmony with the way things are
- there is no absolute truth
- postmodernism
- knowledge isn’t necessarily good
- it is an end
- makes people arrogant
- no meta-narratives
- huge environment identity aspect
- “Mother earth”
- humanity is a blight
- relativism community
- absolute values are acceptable only in community
- acceptable to evangelize individuals, but not people groups
- truth is relative
- it’s irrelevant that the variety of truths contradict each other
- importance of image and story
- more important than fact or word
- cyberverse
- metaverse
- anti-authoritarian
- suspicious of all authorities
- growing suspicion of those who want to be in authority
- encourages the anti-hero
- man sees himself as passing judgement on God
- generalism, or utilitarianism
- utilitarianism
- some binding ethical laws
- each person determines the what’s “probably” best for the majority
- there are no universally binding ethical laws
- actions are judged by the results
- have absolute ends but no absolute norms
- generally tend to sound antinomian