Assess Critically the Claim that Situation Ethics Provides a Better Method of Solving Moral Problems than Any Set of Moral Rules.

... Hayley Thomas 12CR Assess Critically the Claim that Situation Ethics Provides a Better Method of Solving Moral Problems than Any Set of Moral Rules. In 1966 an Anglican theologian, Joseph Fletcher, developed Situation Ethics, challenging original methods that submit a rule or principle that should be applied in every situation. He tried to show that it is the individual and the particular situation that it is of paramount importance. He argued that the only moral principle that could be applied to all situations is to do whatever is the most loving thing. By using an agapeic calculus, one can calculate what would be the most loving thing to do. There is only one duty and that is to love 'thy neighbour as thyself'. Basically, Situation Ethics encompasses the following six ideas; first, as Joseph Fletcher stated: "only one thing is intrinsically good; namely, love: nothing else at all." Secondly, the overriding

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