- Title
- The Proportionality Principle in Ethical Deliberation: A Habermasian Analysis
- Creator
- Lovat, Terence
- Relation
- Education, Religion and Ethics: A Scholarly Collection p. 215-228
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24719-4_16
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- The chapter will explore proportionality as a methodology for ethical deliberation that straddles the two ends of the ethical debate. At one end is an approach referred to as absolutist, universalist or deontological, an approach that rests on belief in givens, an authoritative regime of fixed and immutable rules governing all right and wrong. Herein, the end can never justify the means. At the other end is a school of thought referred to commonly as situationist, consequentialist, utilitarian or teleological, an approach that assumes there are no fixed rules, that each human being and societies as-a-whole are free to gauge rights and wrongs relative to the situation at hand. Herein, the end can justify the means. Proportionality rests between these two extremes. It acknowledges that there are authoritative rules that determine ethical deliberation but that they are not static and able to be applied in unqualified fashion to any situation. Proportionality connotes the rigorous methodology by which individual humans and societies consider the generalised rules and how they might be applied most ethically in the situation at hand. It is proposed that exploring Habermasian epistemology facilitates enhanced appreciation of the benefits that can be derived from the principle of proportionality.
- Subject
- ethical deliberation; proportionality; deontology; teleology; Habermas
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1491667
- Identifier
- uon:53123
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783031247187
- Language
- eng
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