Question

According to McNaughton and Rawling deontological theories, by contrast to their consequentialist counterparts, allow agents to accord central importance to their own status, interests, and special relationships. The term they use to describe this feature is_____________.

Answer 1

Answer: agent-relativity

Explanation: While there are several deolontogical theories, the agent-relative theory allows agents to give precedence to their own status, interests, and special relationships. Alhough every moral theory gives us the same aim of acting morally, there are those that gives us different substantive aims. The agent‐relative theory is one of these—as a moral theory it doesn't give every agent the exact same set of substantive aims. In this it holds that an act is permissible if and only if it maximizes the agent’s utility.