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Kantian ethics refers to a deontological ethical theory ascribed to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Many early ethicists of belief modeled their accounts on deontological ethical theories that tend to formulate principles synchronically.
Deontological ethical theories, in contrast, maintain that whether an action is right or wrong is for the most part independent of whether its consequences are good or bad.
If you were to follow the deontological ethical system you would do nothing and allow the trolley to kill the five people who are unable to get out of the way.
Greene's claim, then, is that this casts doubt on deontological ethical theory: far from giving us good reasons to refrain from certain utility maximizing acts, it merely gives expression to emotional relics of our evolutionary history.
Indeed, any tensions between EU theory and deontological ethical accounts (perhaps to do with the interplay of absolute prohibitions and risk) may simply reveal gaps or perhaps even inconsistencies in those deontological accounts (see, for instance, Broome 1991b; Jackson and Smith 2006; Colyvan et al. 2010).
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Deontological ethics, in philosophy, ethical theories that place special emphasis on the relationship between duty and the morality of human actions.
Others have argued that the resources provided by classical ethical theory such as utilitarianism, consequentialism and deontological ethics is more than enough to deal with all the ethical issues emerging from our design and use of information technology (Gert 1999).
In presenting these arguments ethicists normally apply ethical theories (such as consequentialism, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, etc).
Nor is it clear that meta-ethical contractualism, when it does generate a deontological ethic, favors either an agent centered or a patient centered version of such an ethic.
This should be followed by imparting ethical theories such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics and other aspects of deontological ethics.
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