Threshold deontology (of either stripe) is an attempt to save deontological morality from the charge of fanaticism.
to achieve permissibly what otherwise deontological morality would forbid (see Katz 1996).
Having canvassed the two main types of deontological theories (together with a contractualist variation of each), it is time to assess deontological morality more generally.
On the one hand, deontological morality, in contrast to consequentialism, leaves space for agents to give special concern to their families, friends, and projects.
Deontological morality, therefore, avoids the overly demanding and alienating aspects of consequentialism and accords more with conventional notions of our moral duties.
If A is forbidden by deontological morality from torturing B, many would regard that as a reductio ad absurdum of deontology.
At least that is so if the deontological morality contains no strong duty of general beneficence, or, if it does, it places a cap on that duty's demands.
Likewise, a deontologist can claim that we know the content of deontological morality by direct intuition, by Kantian reflection on our normative situation, or by reaching reflective equilibrium between our particular moral judgments and the theories we construct to explain them (theories of intuitions).
The investigations further found that the philosophical underpinnings of the case companies' CSR were based on 'Common-Sense Morality,' a duty-based deontological moral philosophy that is a departure from widely held instrumental positions associated with Egoism.
8. Whether divine moral perfection should be understood as perfect goodness, perfect virtue, or an optimal combination of goodness and virtue, depends upon whether the correct theory of morality is consequentialist, deontological, or mixed (that is, a mixture of core elements of consequentialist and deontological moral theories).
