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On Defending Deontology
Author(s) -
McNaughton David,
Rawling Piers
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9329.00050
Subject(s) - deontological ethics , consequentialism , epistemology , philosophy , value (mathematics) , computer science , machine learning
This paper comprises three sections. First, we offer a traditional defence of deontology, in the manner of, for example, W.D. Ross (1965). The leading idea of such a defence is that the right is independent of the good. Second, we modify the now standard account of the distinction, in terms of the agent‐relative/agent‐neutral divide, between deontology and consequentialism. (This modification is necessary if indirect consequentialism is to count as a form of consequentialism.) Third, we challenge a value‐based defence of deontology proposed by Quinn (1993), Kamm (1989, 1992), and Nagel (1995).