mattnewport comments on Cultivating our own gardens - Less Wrong

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Comment author: marks 02 June 2010 02:39:08AM 0 points [-]

I would like you to elaborate on the incoherence of deontology so I can test out how my optimization perspective on morality can handle the objections.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 02 June 2010 05:56:44PM 0 points [-]

Can you explain the difference between deontology and moral absolutism first? Because I see it as deontology = moral absolutism, and claims that they are not the same as based on blending deontology + consequentialism and calling the blend deontology.

Comment author: Blueberry 02 June 2010 08:19:45PM 1 point [-]

That is a strange comment. Consequentialists, by definition, believe that doing that action that leads to the best consequences is a moral absolute. Why would deontologists be any more moral absolutists?