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The theory or study of moral obligation; ethics.
DEONTOLOGY - In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek , deon, "obligation, duty") is the normative ethical position that judges the mor...
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| Ethical theory concerned with duties and rights. |
| the part of philosophy that studies moral duty |
| The study of the nature of duty and obligation. |
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In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek , deon, "obligation, duty") * is the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on rules.It is sometimes described as "duty-" or "obligation-" or "rule-" based ethics, because rules "bind you to your duty". Deontological ethics is commonly contrasted to consequentialism, virtue ethics, and pragmatic ethics. In this terminology, action is more important than the consequences. * The term deontological was first used to describe the current, specialised definition by C. D. Broad in his book, Five Types of Ethical Theory, which was published in 1930. Older usage of the term goes back to Jeremy Bentham, who coined it before 1816 as a synonym of Dicastic or Censorial Ethics (i.e. ethics based on judgement). * The more general sense of the word is retained in French, especially in the term code de déontologie (ethical code), in the context of professional ethics. * Depending on the system of deontological |