In keeping with this ethical perspective, we limit ourselves to a deontological analysis of the cluster of ethical issues surrounding search engines, and for the purposes of this entry put aside possible shortcomings internal to, as well as in the application of, deontology.
Deontological constraints and agent-centered prerogatives might limit the duty to promote human perfection, but they might do so because they are derived from independent moral principles.
It takes its organizing theme the topic of claims of moral, political, and legal rights, and looks to how deontological (Kantian) and consequentialist (Mill's utilitarianism) theories can support or limit those claims.
For example, within a deontological position, with which factor 2 has much in common, there are moral limits on patient or citizen choice.
See also deontological ethics.
And the deontological responses, he says, lack moral significance.
The second half of the lecture introduces Kant's deontological moral theory.
Modern ethics, especially since the 18th-century German deontological philosophy of Immanuel Kant, has been deeply divided between a form of teleological ethics (utilitarianism) and deontological theories.
Deontological judgments, says Greene those where we're unwilling to make the utilitarian move deontological judgments, says Greene, are driven by emotional responses.
The outlines of Kant's deontological theory are presented, to be continued in the next lecture.
