Deontological ethics

References and further reading

	Dancy, J. (1993) Moral Reasons, Oxford: Blackwell, chaps 10–12. ( A challenging and idiosyncratic defence of a broadly deontological moral theory.)
	Darwall, S. (1986) ‘Agent-Centred Restrictions from the Inside Out’, Philosophical Studies 50: 291–319. ( A lucid and stimulating attempt to defend the broadly Kantian project of showing that constraints can be justified if we start with the considerations that should weigh with a person of good character.)
	Davis, N. (1993) ‘Contemporary Deontology’, in P. Singer (ed.) A Companion to Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell, 205–18. ( An accessible discussion of deontologists of an absolutist stripe, such as Fried.)
	Fried, C. (1978) Right and Wrong, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ( A readable and vigorous defence of an absolutist deontology.)
	Kant, I. (1785) Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, trans. with notes by H.J. Paton, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (originally The Moral Law), London: Hutchinson, 1948; repr. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. (A classic work of moral philosophy, which defends absolute constraints. It has become fashionable to deny that Kant is a deontologist, but he certainly qualifies as a member of the tradition. Difficult but rewarding.)
	Mc Naughton, D. and Rawling, P. (1991) ‘Agent-Relativity and the Doing-Happening Distinction’, Philosophical Studies 63: 167–85. ( An attempt to provide a satisfactory account of the distinction between the agent-neutral and the agent-relative using formal logic, and to address the relationship between this distinction and that between consequentialism and deontology.)
	Mc Naughton, D. (1996) ‘An Unconnected Heap of Duties?’, Philosophical Quarterly 46 (185): 433–47. ( Argues that deontology, in the form advocated by Ross, can offer a systematic account of our distinct duties.)
	Nagel, T. (1986) The View from Nowhere, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 9. ( A fascinating attempt to find a place for constraints by appeal to the importance of the personal point of view.)
	Ross, W.D. (1930) The Right and the Good, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ch. 2. ( The finest modern systematic exposition of a moderate deontology.)