Is the right thing to do always the most loving thing Give an EXAMPLE to back up your POINT EXTENSION Can you give a COUNTER ARGUMENT to your own point Objective To use memory recall exam questions a real life ID: 204260
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Is this true? Is the right thing to do always the most loving thing?Give an EXAMPLE to back up your POINT.
EXTENSION:
Can you give a
COUNTER ARGUMENT
to your own point?Slide2
Objective
To use memory recall, exam questions, a real life
scenario,
and biblical quotes to understand the Christian principle of Situation Ethics
Joseph Fletcher
American Christian MinisterSlide3
Grade CAll will be able to use memory recall to
define and describe what is meant by Situation Ethics.
Grade B
Most will be able to
explain
the
concept of
agape and
apply the principle of Situation Ethics to making moral decisions.Grade A/A*Some will be able to evaluate and express an opinion on the principle of Situation Ethics.
Your GOALS for the end of this lesson are…
OutcomesSlide4
What is ?
Finish the following sentence
LOVE IS...
In English we only have
ONE
word for
LOVE
that is often understood to mean romantic love.
In Greek they have FOUR words for LOVE...
EROS – Passion, desire, romantic love.STORGE – Love for your family.
PHILIA – Love for your
friends.
AGAPE – The greatest
love.
What do you think is meant by the ‘greatest love’?
Unconditional love- loving others as we love ourselves, both friend and enemy.
To get to that grade B:
Can you give at least one EXAMPLE
of AGAPE?Slide5
Grade BMost will be able to explain
the concept of
agape.
Did you achieve
YOUR goals?…
OutcomesSlide6
What is Situation Ethics?
The principle of Situation Ethics uses
love (agape)
as a basis for
all
moral decisions.
Listen and watch the following slides carefully...
You will be expected to use your
MEMORY
to
DEFINE and
DESCRIBE
what
SITUATION ETHICS
is.Slide7
What is Situation Ethics?
Situation Ethics is a
CHRISTIAN
approach to making moral decisions.
It was put forwards by
JOSEPH FLETCHER
a Christian Minister in the 1960’s during a time of great social change.Slide8
He said...
Love should be the only consideration when making a moral decision.
A
GOOD
decision is one that aims to do
THE MOST LOVING THING.Slide9
He based this on...
The simple teachings of JESUS...
My command is this:
love
each other as I have
loved
you (John 12:15)Slide10
He also said...
A person should only obey the Bible and the Church if that teaching results in the
MOST LOVING
thing to do.Slide11
Fletcher was clear about what type of love that should be applied –
AGAPE
(an attitude towards people rather than a feeling
).
Showing
AGAPE makes it possible to love your enemies and act in loving ways towards people who have not done anything to deserve love. Slide12
From memory complete the following on your worksheet...WHAT?WHO?HE SAID...?
What is Situation Ethics?Slide13
Complete PAGE 56 QUESTION 1 of your REVISION WORKBOOK
complete WITHOUT NOTES
against the
2
minute
clock.
Make a note of your time in the margin.Now SELF MARK your work.REMEMBER
2 MARKS for an accurate definition
1 MARK partially correct definition
0 MARKS incorrectSituation Ethics – The idea that Christians should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do.The Golden Rule– The teaching of Jesus that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you.
EXTENSION: Also complete question 2 within the 2 minute time limitSlide14
Grade CAll will be able to use memory recall to define
and describe what is meant by Situation Ethics
Did you achieve
YOUR goals?…
OutcomesSlide15
There are several verses in the New Testament that stress the importance of love (agape) in making moral decisions...‘Love your God with all your heart, and all your soul...and love your neighbour as yourself’ (Luke 10:27)‘Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends’(John 15:13)
‘And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us’ (John 3:23)
What inspired Situation Ethics?
Read the following scenario carefully…
Using the above quotes and the principle of Situation Ethics (AGAPE) what do you think a Christian (who
ONLY USES SITUATION
ETHICS
to make moral decisions) would do?Slide16
Grade BMost will be able to apply
the principle of Situation Ethics to making moral decisions.
Did you achieve
YOUR goals?…
OutcomesSlide17
During the Holocaust, a group of
Jewish people hid in the sewers of a German city as the SS police marched in the streets overhead. Amongst the group there was a
mother with her
baby
. The woman’s baby began to cry. No matter what she did, the mother could not get her baby to stop.
I
f the baby continued to cry , it was only a matter of time before the Nazis heard,
and
then they
would all be discovered. Rather than risk the lives of everyone down there, she smothered her baby to death with a blanket, and let the corpse float down the sewer.This was taken from the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor who detailed how she escaped Nazi imprisonment. Did the woman's actions follow the principle of Situation Ethics?
Was this the most loving action?
Applying Situation Ethics?
EXTENSION:
Do you think that morally, this was the right course of action?Slide18
Grade A/A*Some will be able to express
an opinion on the principle of Situation Ethics.
Did you achieve
YOUR goals?…
OutcomesSlide19
Think
Pair
Share
YES
NO
Complete the
following...
Use what you have learnt today about situation ethics to
EVALUATE
whether you think it works as a moral code.
Once you have some ideas share with a partner.
YESNOEvery situation is judged individually rather than a blanket right or wrong e.g. murder is wrong.It is dependant on a person being able to predict what will happen to determine what is most loving, and this is impossible.
It has a genuine Christian intention, of which the basis is LOVE.
In
theory, anything (murder, adultery etc...) could be justified if the person felt it was the most loving thing to do.
Acting out of LOVE is a positive
thing,
so it would bring positive consequences.
It
works in extreme cases but not in everyday society where we are used to having rules and laws.
Does it work?Slide20
Complete PAGE 56 QUESTION 3 of your REVISION WORKBOOK PLEASE CHANGE ‘the Golden Rule today TO ‘Situation Ethics’ So the question reads…
Do you think it is always possible to apply Situation Ethics?
complete
WITHOUT NOTES
against the
4
minute clock.http://www.online-stopwatch.com/Make a note of your time in the margin.Now
SWAP
and
PEER MARK each others work.REMEMBER mark on those P’s and E’s and KW’s and Q’s.Give them a mark out of 4 and a clear TARGET.Slide21
Grade A/A*Some will be able to evaluate
and express an opinion
on the principle of Situation Ethics.
Did you achieve
YOUR goals?…
OutcomesSlide22
How would Situation Ethics be used to solve the following dilemmas?A 15-year-old girl is pregnant after being raped, and is considering abortion. A terminally ill
man asks his wife to help him commit suicide.A man is considering committing adultery on his wife who has Alzheimer's and cannot remember him.
Plenary...