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  ***Continued from Chapter 01 (Covered previously: What is Situational Ethics, The Meaning & Context of Agape, The Three Views Of Situational Ethics ) Link to Chapter 01: CHAPTER - 01 The Four Working Principles of Situationism Principle 1. Pragmatism The situationalist follows a strategy, which is  pragmatic . “Pragmatism” is a well worked-out philosophical position adopted by the likes of  John Dewey  (1859 – 1952),  Charles Peirce  (1839–1914) and  William James  (1842–1910). Fletcher does not want his theory associated with these views and rejects all the implications of this type of “Pragmatism”. What makes his view pragmatic is very simple. It is just his attraction to moral views, which do not try to work out what to do in the abstract, but rather explores how moral views might play out in each  real life situations . Principle 2: Relativism Even with his rejection of Antinomianism and his acceptance of one supreme principle of morality, Fletcher, surprising