About the lecture

In this module, we introduce situation ethics, and the context in which Fletcher was writing, focusing in particular on (i) the historical background to situation ethics, its place in broader theological tradition (ii) the church’s view on the ‘New Morality’ in Fletcher’s time (iii) three approaches to ethics identified by Fletcher (iv) the situation ethicist’s objections to legalism (v) the varieties of antinomianism (vi) Fletcher’s objection to the conflation of existentialist antinomianism with situation ethics (vii) situation ethics as a middle way between legalism and antinomianism (viii) loving God and loving your neighbour as the guiding principle of Christian situation ethics.

About the lecturer

Iain Law is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. His main interests are in meta-ethics, applied ethics and ethical theory, and he is currently working on papers in moral theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of medicine and applied ethics.