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- Title
Agent-Relativity and the Status of Deontological Restrictions.
- Authors
Buckland, Jamie
- Abstract
Alternatively, there is an intuitively plausible, pre-theoretical way of understanding the distinction between agent-neutral and agent-relative rules that is easily articulated in ordinary language, requires no formalisation, regiments no counterintuitive intuitions, and does everything a distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral rules needs to do.[26] Enough with the Formalities? If deontological restrictions are to be I necessarily i agent-relative restrictions, then they are better characterised as agent-relative consequentialist restrictions, not deontological restrictions. Yet, on the face of it, a pre-theoretical distinction between agent-neutral and agent-relative rules is remarkably easy to articulate: namely, a distinction between universal moral rules which have a restricted scope of practical application (agent-relative rules), and universal moral rules which have a general, or wide scope of practical application (agent-neutral rules). In fact, given that most plausible deontological normative theories will consist of various agent-neutral restrictions, agent-relative obligations, and agent-relative permissions, it is questionable whether "deontology" qua normative theory can be suitably characterised as exclusively agent-neutral either.
- Subjects
DEONTOLOGICAL ethics; CONSEQUENTIALISM (Ethics); INTUITION; PRACTICAL reason; ETHICS; GRANDPARENT-grandchild relationships; SOCIAL ethics; CHILD abuse; ASSASSINATION attempts
- Publication
Journal of Value Inquiry, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 2, p233
- ISSN
0022-5363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10790-021-09823-z