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Joseph Fletcher was born on 10 April, 1905 in Newark, New Jersey, is an American professor and founder of situational ethics. Discover Joseph Fletcher's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Occupation Theologian, Episcopal priest, educator, author
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 10 April 1905
Birthday 10 April
Birthplace Newark, New Jersey
Date of death 28 October, 1991
Died Place Charlottesville, Virginia
Nationality United States

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1905

Joseph Francis Fletcher (April 10, 1905 in Newark, New Jersey - October 28, 1991 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American professor who founded the theory of situational ethics in the 1960s, and was a pioneer in the field of bioethics.

Fletcher was a leading academic proponent of the potential benefits of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics, and cloning.

Ordained as an Episcopal priest, he later identified himself as an atheist.

Fletcher was a prolific academic, teaching, participating in symposia, and completing ten books, and hundreds of articles, book reviews, and translations.

1944

He taught Christian Ethics at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Harvard Divinity School from 1944 to 1970.

He was the first professor of medical ethics at the University of Virginia and co-founded the Program in Biology and Society there.

1974

In 1974, the American Humanist Association named him Humanist of the Year.

He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.

He served as president of the Euthanasia Society of America (later renamed the Society for the Right to Die) from 1974 to 1976.

He was also a member of the American Eugenics Society and the Association for Voluntary Sterilization.

One of his children, Joseph F. Fletcher Jr. was a historian.

"We need to educate people to the idea that the quality of life is more important than mere length of life. Our cultural tradition holds that life has absolute value, but that is really not good enough anymore. Sometimes, no life is better."

“mercy killing” is justified for “an incorrigible ‘human vegetable,’ whether spontaneously functioning or artificially supported, [who] is progressively degraded while constantly eating up private or public financial resources in violation of the distributive justice owed to others.” Joseph Fletcher, “Ethics and Euthanasia,” in Horan and Mall, eds., Death, Dying, and Euthanasia, p. 301.

"Ethics critically examines values and how they are to be acted out; but whether they are acted out or not, loyalty to them depends on character or personal quality, and so it follows that the quality of medicine depends on the character of its clinicians."

"We ought to love people and use things; the essence of immorality is to love things and use people."

"People [with children with Down's syndrome]... have no reason to feel guilty about putting a Down's syndrome baby away, whether it's "put away" in the sense of hidden in a sanitarium or in a more responsible lethal sense. It is sad; yes. Dreadful. But it carries no guilt. True guilt arises only from an offense against a person, and a Down's is not a person."

1977

He retired from teaching in 1977.