BHA: de-onts, etc.

[Ruth Groff <rgroff@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mervyn, all,

I'm glad to see such a lively discussion.  Hopefully Howard will be back
soon and will pipe in.

I wanted to ask a side question about the allusion to deontological
moral/political theory.  Mervyn, you wrote:
>(For the etymologically minded it usefully calls attention to
>the relation between absence, constraint, need and morality, which is
>central to Bhaskar's whole argument in DPF).

I haven't paid a lot of attention to that part of Bhaskar's writing, but
I've been kind of surprised to hear it characterized as deontological.  I
would have thought that a focus on eudaimonistic flourishing would put
Bhaskar in with the other guys (I forget just now what they get called in
the literature - the non-deontological people).

Any help with this?

r.



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