This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Deontology and utilitarianism are two competing principles that guide our moral judgment. Recently, deontology is thought to be intuitive and ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 173, No. 8 (August 2016), pp. 2049-2068 (20 pages) Is there a reason to prevent deontological ...

Deontological (duty-based) ethics are concerned with what people do, not with the consequences of their actions. Do the right thing. Do it because it's the right thing to do. Don't do wrong things.

Moral dilemmas can be portrayed as decisions between two main conflicting moral principles: utilitarian and deontological. Utilitarian philosophies hold that an action is morally acceptable if it ...

All of morality aims at the same thing but there are several basic ways to get there. If you prefer, each approach is like a different tool—a hammer, a nail, a level. Using the right tool for the ...

Men, relative to women, show a stronger preference for utilitarian over deontological judgments, according to a new meta-analysis of 40 studies. This gender difference in moral decisions is caused by ...