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What would make his moral Philosophy deontological or not? Duties. The deon in deontology is Greek for duty, any moral theory that is centred on duties (imperatives, rules) is inherently deontological. Things change depending on what you are investigating. If you are placing Kant into the wider his...

Today we learned that there is an inherent oughtness in rocks to do what nature tells them to do, which is sit around just existing. This oughtness to exist is an inherent moral fact apparently.

Obviously Kant's moral theory is of the rule following variety AKA deontological.
And the video comes with this description:

A simple introduction to Kant’s Categorical Imperative and his deontological approach to ethics

Any moral system that places the goodness/badness of actions into the actions themselves and the rules they follow rather than outcomes or anything about the person taking the action is by type deontological.

Kant's ethics is definitely deontological because it is all about the rules.

If a claim is subjective, you cannot check it against anything, and that subsequently brings into question whther it can have a truth value at all. That would make subjective morality pretty well useless. Morality is useful for what we use it for, which is a set of social practises that make it pos...

As far as I am concerned, "objectively moral", is a contradiction in terms. Objectivity is the default position. Everything's objective. My desires. Your desires. The fact that your desires conflict with my desires. Objective facts everywhere. There's no contradiction until you make up th...

The people who created these pictures could only work with the content of their imagination. So they had to imagine that God would seek out and assemble all the molecules of their former bodies and then rejoin them with their •soul•. Yet the entire story, for us, is absurd on a dozen levels. God co...

In the same way that "stopping at red lights at intersections" is an objective standard of conduct. One can have other standards of conduct at intersections ... roundabouts, various configurations of stop signs, yield signs, various rules for unmarked intersections. I think maybe you neve...

Added note: … Note: I was reminded of this Ultimate Condemnatory Sixties song when reading your post. Here You have been blathering about all this pseudo-Christian neo-trad fraudulent nonsense for months (years given that it is just some old Gustav BJ rubbish you dug up), yet you don't even know en...

In the same way that "stopping at red lights at intersections" is an objective standard of conduct. One can have other standards of conduct at intersections ... roundabouts, various configurations of stop signs, yield signs, various rules for unmarked intersections. I think maybe you neve...

YT links are case-sensitive and shouldn't be edited in MS Word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ2fvTvtzBM Obviously Kant's moral theory is of the rule following variety AKA deontological. And the video comes with this description: A simple introduction to Kant’s Categorical Imperative and his deont...

Bowie... Quicksand I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with the potential of a superman I'm living on I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien Can't take my eyes from the great salvation Of bullshit faith If I don't explain what you ought to know You can tell me all about it on the ne...

OK. Sorry. Should I call you an "ignoramus" too? I mean, just as a joke. You won't take it badly, will you? I have an idea: call me, refer to me, exactly and precisely how you think I am. Neither less nor more. Fair enough. I don't think you're an ignoramus. No? Quite aside from his grott...

Could you present me with the passages that support that? I would like to see. 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 Most are familiar with that bit of scripture. In no sense does it support the notion of a return to a physical body in this world. Precisely the opposite. https://www.catholic.com/tract/resurrectio...

The original expectation was that the righteous people would return to the world in a physical form. The eternal life would be here. Some sort of eternal life in"heaven" was a later addition/change. Could you present me with the passages that support that? I would like to see. Corinthians...