CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
1.2 Statement of Problem
1.3 Purpose of Study
1.4 Scope of Study
1.5 Significance of Study
1.6 Methodology
1.7 Definition of Terms
Endnotes
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
Endnotes
CHAPTER THREE
THE CONCEPT OF SITUATION ETHICS
The Approaches to Ethics
The Basis of Situation Ethics
The Methodology of Situation Ethics
Situation Ethics and Moral Principles
Situation Ethics and the Decalogue
Endnotes
CHAPTER FOUR
AN APPRAISAL OF FLETCHER’S SITUATION ETHICS
Evaluation of Fletcher’s Situationism
Philosophical Appraisal
Endnotes
CHAPTER FIVE
EVALUATION AND CONCLUSION
Evaluation
Conclusion
Endnotes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction Fletcher is a major proponent of situation ethics. In his book entitled: Situation Ethics (the new morality), he presented to us an individual freedom and individual responsibility within an ethic of love. He attempts to free man from legalism by providing a system of decision-making, which presupposes individual responsibility and states that everyman must decide for himself what is right. He tells us that moral decisions often fall into three categories: legalism, antinormianism and situationism. These categories will be
ABSTRACT
The
issue of International Development is one which much attention is being geared
towards, and as such, every subject of material implication and correlation to
it is to be carefully analyzed to draw conclusions to aspects which her
usefulness will be to International Development. Philosophy as a subject is one
whose potentials to contributing to International Development are infinite. As
a result, a study such as this is aimed at bringing to light the positive
aspects which the subject Philosophy can bring to International Development and
its importance. Philosophy by definition is a very complex and rather ambiguous
subject. This complexity and ambiguity do not arise from the fact that
Philosophy is a vague and an incomprehensible subject, but from the fact that
they are many philosophical viewpoints, with different philosophers, defining
Philosophy from their own viewpoints. This difference of definitions is also a
function of the purpose to which Philosophy is to be applied in a particular
situation.
Introduction Fletcher is a major proponent of situation ethics. In his book entitled: Situation Ethics (the new morality), he presented to us an individual freedom and individual responsibility within an ethic of love. He attempts to free man from legalism by providing a system of decision-making, which presupposes individual responsibility and states that everyman must decide for himself what is right. He tells us that moral decisions often fall into three categories: legalism, antinormianism and situationism. These categories will be
