Common Good and Agape Love?
Published on Mar 20, 2017
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Common Good and Agape Love?
Examining Common Good and Agape Love as Ethical Systems
Rather than asking
"is it right to wrong to do this?" it instead asks "what will happen if/when I do this?"
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Actions vs Outcomes
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The goal of Common Good Ethics is to make things as good as possible for everyone, while causing as little harm as possible to anyone.
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To use Common Good to answer a Moral Question you need to.........
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1. Assess all of the positive outcomes which will come out of an action
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3. Measure the positive outcomes against the negative outcomes
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4. Consider other potential actions, measuring the positive and negative outcomes of those
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Whichever action creates the most positive outcomes and the least negative outcomes is the correct/right thing to do
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Jesus' commandment to Agape Love
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www.biblegateway.com
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John 13:34-35
John 15:13
Copy, read and put into your own words
Explain what Jesus is teaching!
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One of the biggest moral questions which we have to confront as a society is that of poverty, especially in the face of inequality
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What is ethically correct for us to do as people of wealth and privilege
in relation to those who do not have our advantages?
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Apply the steps of Common Good Ethics
to the situation of poverty.
What is the best solution?
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Apply the standard of Agape Love
to the situation of poverty.
What should you do?
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Strengths & Weaknesses of Agape Love
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