Deontological (duty-based) ethics are concerned with what people do, not with the consequences of their actions. Deontological (duty-based) ethics are concerned with what people do, not with the ...

Let me begin with a puzzle about the Kantian notion of recognition respect - the respect due to any person regardless of merit (moral or otherwise). It is sometimes thought that the object of respect, ...

Mainstream economics has long struggled to model ethical behaviour, including what is perhaps its simplest type, altruism. The standard assumption of homo economicus, an agent who maximizes his ...

This section will introduce and define the basic concepts I will use. Kant was an enormously systematic thinker, and the ideas I isolate are, within his own work, embedded in a perhaps uniquely ...