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Document Details : Title: Kant and the Utilitarians Author(s): NORDENSTAM, Tore Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Date: April 2004 Pages: 29-36 DOI: 10.2143/EP.8.1.503823 Abstract : One of the standard manoeuvres in contemporary moral philosophy is to present Kant's ethics and utilitarianism as alternative ethical theories. New students learn that there are two main types of ethical theory, those which are consequence-based and those which are not. The first type is called teleological ethics, the second one is called deontological ethics. As typical examples of teleological ethical theories, one refers to classical utilitarianism (Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) and such 20th-century developments as rule utilitarianism (R.B. Brandt and others) and preference utilitarianism (R.M. Hare). As typical examples of deontological ethical theorists, one refers to Immanuel Kant and W.D. Ross. |
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