Sentence examples for deontological reading from inspiring English sources

But a powerful argument for the deontological reading is Kant's own apparent insistence that the authority of moral demands must come simply from their being the demands of each person's own rational will, quite apart from the value that will may have.

It is of considerable interest to those who follow Kant to determine which reading — teleological or deontological — was actually Kant's, as well as which view ought to have been his.

This depends on whether "prima facie" is read epistemically or not, and on (1) whether any good consequences are eligible to justify breach of prima facie duties; (2) whether only such consequences over some threshold can do so; or (3) whether only threatened breach of other deontological duties can do so.

read   d.

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Previous research has been taken to show that deontological judgments are largely driven by emotion (Greene, 2008).

Moore entertains the idea that one could take an absolutist sort of deontological attitude towards the positive duty to punish.

Threshold deontology (of either stripe) is an attempt to save deontological morality from the charge of fanaticism.

See also deontological ethics.

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.