- In
moral philosophy,
deontological ethics or
deontology (from Gr****: δέον, 'obligation, duty' + λόγος, 'study') is the
normative ethical theory that the...
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consequentialism and
deontology,
which make the
goodness of
outcomes of an
action (consequentialism) and the
concept of
moral duty (
deontology) central. While...
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motivate people.
Influential normative theories are consequentialism,
deontology, and
virtue ethics.
According to consequentialists, an act is
right if...
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Teleology (from τέλος, telos, 'end', 'aim', or 'goal', and λόγος, logos, 'explanation' or 'reason') or
finality is a
branch of
causality giving the reason...
- In
ethics and
other branches of philosophy,
suicide poses difficult questions,
answered differently by
various philosophers. The
French Algerian essayist...
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Consequentialism is
usually contrasted with
deontological ethics (or
deontology):
deontology, in
which rules and
moral duty are central,
derives the rightness...
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important concept in law and ethics,
especially theories of
justice and
deontology. The
history of
social conflicts has
often involved attempts to define...
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influenced by
moral or
political theories. The
general normative theories of
deontology,
utilitarianism and
virtue ethics are
three general normative theories...
- Anscombe,
Philippa Foot,
Alasdair MacIntyre, and
Rosalind Hursthouse.
Deontology argues that
decisions should be made
considering the
factors of one's...
- the
conduct of a
person then the
first group of
theories (ontology and
deontology)
looks at the
principles themselves, the
second group of
theories (teleology...
