Ethics of Compassion by Reilly Richard;

Author:Reilly, Richard;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Keown goes on (185-191) to present Joseph Fletcher’s view of “Situation Ethics” which he perceptively calls “Agapistic Act-Utilitarianism.” The “Mahā-yāna-upāya” view is that of the great Bodhisattvas who, like the Roshi who teaches the samurai about heaven and hell, act compassionately sometimes in disregard of general precepts; and, this does seem to mirror Fletcher’s view that the only principle or value that the Christian needs to be guided by is that “unconditioned love” that God has for us.

In Utilitarianism, J. S. Mill famously claims:

As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator. In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. ‘To do as you would be done by,’ and ‘to love your neighbor as yourself,’ constitute the ideal of perfection of utilitarian morality. (Mill, 1979:16-17)

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