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- noun Plural form of
deontologist .
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As Robert Hinde succinctly put it, they agree that 'moral precepts, while not necessarily constructed by reason, should be defensible by reason'. 89 They classify themselves in many ways, but in modern terminology the major divide is between' deontologists '(such as Kant) and' consequentialists '(including' utilitarians 'such as Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832).
The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006
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So, again, you appear to be begging the question against deontologists.
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Again, when the first principles of deontologists conflict, as they tend to do, they must have a way of resolving that conflict.
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First of all, not all libertarians are deontologists.
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But deontologists evaluate laws directly, in terms of what is intrinsically just or unjust.
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So, again, you appear to be begging the question against deontologists.
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And of course this is quite false: purist libertarians tend to be deontologists, contending that questions of law and justice should be separated from questions of overall resulting social value.
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And of course this is quite false: purist libertarians tend to be deontologists, contending that questions of law and justice should be separated from questions of overall resulting social value.
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But for deontologists, the question of legal prohibition (and related questions of rights) can be separated from the question of how evil something is.
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So, again, you appear to be begging the question against deontologists.
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