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The authors hold that
{ 1 } - the ends of human action are not always persons and the community of interrelated persons responding to each other.
{ 2 } - deontological ethics must be subordinate to teleological ethics.
{ 3 } - all teleological reasoning is consequentialism.
{ 4 } - only deontological reasoning has absolute concrete moral norms.
{ 5 } - teleological and deontological reasoning are mutually exclusive.
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The authors hold that
{ 1 } - the ends of human action are not always persons and the community of interrelated persons responding to each other.
{ 2 } - deontological ethics must be subordinate to teleological ethics.
{ 3 } - all teleological reasoning is consequentialism.
{ 4 } - only deontological reasoning has absolute concrete moral norms.
{ 5 } - teleological and deontological reasoning are mutually exclusive.
No, they do hold that the end (telos) of human action is always personal (and that means is love-oriented).
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The authors hold that
{ 1 } - the ends of human action are not always persons and the community of interrelated persons responding to each other.
{ 2 } - deontological ethics must be subordinate to teleological ethics.
{ 3 } - all teleological reasoning is consequentialism.
{ 4 } - only deontological reasoning has absolute concrete moral norms.
{ 5 } - teleological and deontological reasoning are mutually exclusive.
This is another way of saying that one decides what is right or wrong by understanding rather than by will.
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The authors hold that
{ 1 } - the ends of human action are not always persons and the community of interrelated persons responding to each other.
{ 2 } - deontological ethics must be subordinate to teleological ethics.
{ 3 } - all teleological reasoning is consequentialism.
{ 4 } - only deontological reasoning has absolute concrete moral norms.
{ 5 } - teleological and deontological reasoning are mutually exclusive.
Consequentialism determines whether an action is right or wrong only by its consequences, whereas good teleological reasoning decides morality on the basis of the nature of the act.
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The authors hold that
{ 1 } - the ends of human action are not always persons and the community of interrelated persons responding to each other.
{ 2 } - deontological ethics must be subordinate to teleological ethics.
{ 3 } - all teleological reasoning is consequentialism.
{ 4 } - only deontological reasoning has absolute concrete moral norms.
{ 5 } - teleological and deontological reasoning are mutually exclusive.
No, teleological reasoning can also hold such norms. See p. 147.
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The authors hold that
{ 1 } - the ends of human action are not always persons and the community of interrelated persons responding to each other.
{ 2 } - deontological ethics must be subordinate to teleological ethics.
{ 3 } - all teleological reasoning is consequentialism.
{ 4 } - only deontological reasoning has absolute concrete moral norms.
{ 5 } - teleological and deontological reasoning are mutually exclusive.
See p. 146.
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