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A Philosophical Appraisal Of Joseph Fletcher’s New Morality
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There are various names for this approach:
Situationism, contextualism, occasionlism, circumstantialism or
actualism. These labels indicate of course, that the core of the ethics
they describe is a healthy and primary awareness that circumstances
alter cases. Situationism places emphases on the situation more than
anything else in determining which action is right or wrong in any given
situation.
Having seen the three different approaches to decision
making, it is important to point out at this early stage that there is
no one of these approaches that has the absolute answer to the issue of
making a moral decision. The words of Eboh explained this point better:
What
needs to be highlighted is that in moral spheres, there is always a
blending of colours. It is never one colour, it is always a mixture of
colours each colour is a shade of human factors in moral decision
making.[7]
What is being stressed here is that there is need for
prudence while making any moral decision, and not to follow one of these
approaches fanatically.
[1] B. O. Eboh, Living Issues in Ethics (Nsukka: Afro-Orbis pub. Company, 2005) p.34
[2] J. Fletcher, op cit., p.18
[3]Ibid, p.21
[4]Ibid.
[5]. J. Omoregbe, Ethics: A Systematic And Historical Approach (Lagos: Joja press, 1993) p. 257
[6] J. Fletcher op cit., p. 27 –28.
[7] B. O. Eboh, op cit., p.35
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