This document discusses situation ethics and references a case study from Joseph Fletcher's book Situation Ethics from 1966. The case study describes a situation from 1962 where a psychiatric patient raped another patient, a young woman with schizophrenia, resulting in an unwanted pregnancy. Hospital administrators did not want to allow an abortion due to laws prohibiting abortion except to save the mother's life. The document also references a biblical passage from John 8:11 and discusses different theological approaches to ethics like hedonism, egoism, and utilitarianism. It quotes an author criticizing situation ethics and other approaches that are not rooted in God's word. Overall, the document examines situation ethics through a case study, biblical reference, and discussion of alternative ethical frameworks.

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2. MY TOPIC
GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR ETHICS OBSERVANCE
From a real
case
From
Biblical
cases
(Jn 8,11)
From
secular
stories cases

3. 1.- There are moral conflicts
2.- What are the traditional solutions
3.- What is my point of view
MY RESEARCH
MY STEPS
MY THESIS STATEMENTS
I look for resolves moral
problems of judgment or
conduct arising in specific
situations.

10. Situation Ethics was pioneered by Joseph
Fletcher. Since his work, Situation
Ethics (1966), almost every publication
on contemporary ethics has referred to the
model presented in Fletcher's writings.

11. "In 1962 , a patient of a state psychiatric center raped a sick from
that same institution , a young maiden afflicted deep schizophrenic
psychosis . By knowing what happened , the father of the victim
sued the hospital through culpable negligence and sought to put an
end to unwanted pregnancy, an abortion immediately provoked his
daughter when he was still in the early stage of gestation. The
management and hospital administrators did not agree to such a
lawsuit claiming that the penal code prohibits any kind of abortions
, except for “ therapeutic " -that is, those practiced when is in
danger the life of the mother , because assumes that the moral law
considers a crime any interference in the development of an
embryo after fertilization of the egg , as this means taking the life of
an innocent human being .”
FLETCHER Joseph. Ethics situation, pp.64,

12. FROM GENESIS TO
APOCALYPSE

13. FROM GENESIS TO
APOCALYPSE
KJV John 8:11 She said, No man,
Lord. And Jesus said unto
her, Neither do I condemn
thee: go, and sin no more.

16. Miroslav M. Kis
Chair, Department
of Theology and
Christian
Philosophy
Professor of Ethics

17. “The theological systems , in which the
highest good is pleasure (hedonism) ,
self-interest (egoism), the best social
interest (utilitarianism) , or a subjective
sense of love (Ethics of the situation)
has no roots in the word of God ... Only
when Christians , armed with devotion,
prayer and value make them face the
dilemmas of life can avoid follow their
own inclination to sin” KIS Miroslav. Theology. Vol
VII. Bogotá: APIA, 2008, p. 164

18. IS IT ENOUGH??

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