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paradox of deontology: a standalone construct

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Ethics

the puzzle that constraints forbid violating one right even when doing so would prevent more violations of the same kind.

In ethics, paradox of deontology refers to the puzzle that constraints forbid violating one right even when doing so would prevent more violations of the same kind. This meaning comes from Scheffler (1982) in The rejection of consequentialism.[1]

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  1. Scheffler, S. (1982). The rejection of consequentialism. Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198247418

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