This process of reasoning is "deontological" -- that is, it cannot be subsumed under a simple model of maximizing rationality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social agency and rational choice] Reference

Please note that I used the term deontological before you did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge] Reference

And Kant's own views have typically been classified as deontological precisely because they have seemed to reverse this priority and deny just what such theories assert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Moral Philosophy] Reference

Society reacts to the utilitarian/deontological dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Controversial Peter Singer] Reference

Take that term in its original and basic deontological sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

The problem applies to the deontological approach to value too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Pluralism] Reference

We may, then, define non-deontological justification as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemology] Reference

“Right” and “wrong” signify these deontological properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Arguments for the Existence of God] Reference

The sanctity of life view is thus a deontological position on suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suicide] Reference

Nor does mentalism entail the correctness of the deontological concept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification] Reference

Related Entries consequentialism | ethics: deontological | ethics: virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Kill a Missionary] Reference

What does it mean for a belief to be justified in a non-deontological sense?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemology] Reference

The alternative to an axiological formulation is a deontological formulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problem of Evil] Reference

If one accepts a deontological approach to ethics, this response seems decisive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problem of Evil] Reference

Clearly, Alston justification differs radically from the original deontological notion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

Perhaps this illuminates the distinction between the utilitarian and deontological mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Controversial Peter Singer] Reference

This shows that synchronic deontological concepts are dubious philosophical significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference

Such a justification involves both deontological as well as consequentialist considerations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punishment] Reference

Similarly, respect for deontological constraints on action sound in judgment not preference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Analysis of Law] Reference

At stake in this debate is the utilitarian (Benthamite) versus deontological (Kantian) ethic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It] Reference

Classic utilitarianism is consequentialist as opposed to deontological because of what it denies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consequentialism] Reference

Nevertheless, various versions of that objection have been leveled against deontological theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impartiality] Reference

But these latter two forms of internalism are not logically connected to the deontological concept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Internalist vs. Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification] Reference

Because of this, Meinong thought that axiological (and, similarly, deontological) knowledge is a priori.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvation Santa] Reference

Paul Taylor's version of this view (1981 and 1986), which we might call biocentrism, is a deontological example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environmental Ethics] Reference

Rather, an agent is permitted on deontological views to give special attention to her own projects and interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impartiality] Reference

Although there is no deontological bar to switching, neither is the saving of a net four lives a reason to switch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

In section 3.2.1, a concrete, deontological, and direct inductive formulation of the argument from evil was set out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problem of Evil] Reference

The non-theist will then ask why, if this is so, moral deontological properties cannot arise minus a divine command.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Arguments for the Existence of God] Reference

Second, this justification requires some accommodation to consequentialist as well as to deontological considerations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punishment] Reference

Ethics, which allowed that deontological views which say some acts that maximize the good are wrong are perfectly coherent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moore's Moral Philosophy] Reference

The problem of dealing with risks in deontological theories is similar to the corresponding problem in rights-based theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Risk] Reference

More evidence for the pervasive influence of the deontological component of the classical package can be found in chapter 1 of WCD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

Axiological (and deontological) knowledge is possible since there are justified feelings (and desires) that present factual dignities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvation Santa] Reference

This understanding of justification, commonly labeled deontological, may be defined as follows: S is justified in doing x if and only if.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemology] Reference

This array of alternatives raises the question of which moral theories count as consequentialist (as opposed to deontological), and why.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consequentialism] Reference

Today, however, the dominant view is that the deontological understanding of justification is unsuitable for the purposes of epistemology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemology] Reference

That, of course, doesn't matter if you are a following a justice or rights-based deontological approach: Means overtake ends in importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Crilly: Darfur and the International Criminal Court] Reference

One cannot credibly say that natural rights or the deep deontological structure of the universe gives me a right to twenty-eight or fifty-six or seventy years of exclusivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference