Teleology,Deontology, and the Priority of the Right: On Some Unappreciated Distinctions |
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Authors: | Miriam Ronzoni |
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Institution: | (1) Max Weber Fellow, Villa La Fonte, Max Weber Programme, Via delle Fontanelle, 10 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole, FI, Italy |
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Abstract: | The paper analyses Rawls’s teleology/deontology distinction, and his concept of priority of the right. The first part of the
paper aims both 1) to clarify what is distinctive about Rawls’s deontology/teleology distinction (thus sorting out some existing
confusion in the literature, especially regarding the conflation of such distinction with that between consequentialism and
nonconsequentialism); and 2) to cash out the rich taxonomy of moral theories that such a distinction helpfully allows us to
develop. The second part of the paper examines the concept of priority of the right. It argues that such a concept should
not be identified with that of deontology—indeed, deontological theories do not necessarily assign priority to the right over
the good. However, it contends that the concept of priority of the right is essential to explaining what specific kind of
deontological theory “justice as fairness” is. Justice as fairness is a deontological theory which assigns priority to the
right as a consequence of its commitment to a neutral position with respect to different accounts of what is ultimately valuable
and good. |
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