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Open main menu Search Situational ethics Language Watch Edit Situational ethics or situation ethics takes into account the particular context of an act when evaluating it ethically , rather than judging it according to absolute moral standards . With the intent to have a fair basis for judgments or action, one looks to personal ideals of what is appropriate to guide them, rather than an unchanging universal code of conduct, such as Biblical law under divine command theory or the Kantian categorical imperative . [1] Proponents of situational approaches to ethics include existentialist philosophers Sartre , de Beauvoir , Jaspers , and Heidegger . [2] Specifically Christian forms of situational ethics placing love above all particular principles or rules were proposed in the first half of the twentieth century by liberal theologians Rudolf Bultmann , John A. T. Robinson , and Joseph Fletcher . [3] These theologians point specifically to agapē , or uncondition