Definitions
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- noun Ethical theory concerned with duties and rights.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of duty; ethics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which relates to duty or moral obligation.
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- noun ethics The
ethical study ofduties ,obligations , andrights , with an approach focusing on therightness orwrongness of actions themselves and not on thegoodness orbadness of theconsequences of those actions.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term deontology is derived from the Greek deon which means binding duty.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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The term deontology is derived from the Greek deon which means binding duty.
THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988
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The word deontology derives from the Greek words for duty
Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007
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Yet in some of his writings, Greene suggests that this weighs against deontological ethics, indicating that deontology is just a kind of rationalization of unreconstructed emotional prejudices, seeking (as Nietzsche said of Kant) “to prove, in a way that would dumbfound the common man, that the common man was right.”
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) 2006
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Yet in some of his writings, Greene suggests that this weighs against deontological ethics, indicating that deontology is just a kind of rationalization of unreconstructed emotional prejudices, seeking (as Nietzsche said of Kant) “to prove, in a way that would dumbfound the common man, that the common man was right.”
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) 2006
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What is the basis for the "ought" in deontology or the valuation of consequences in consequential ethics?
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This solution to the paradox of deontology, which is consistent with the spirit of the patient-centered version, may seem attractive, but it comes at a high cost.
Deontological Ethics Alexander, Larry 2007
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There is another school of thought withing ethics called deontology, which, says that virtue should be judged by intentions.
carinosa34 Diary Entry carinosa34 2003
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One Waterboarding is a Tragedy; a Million is a Statistic | Julian Sanchez Civilian life affords us the luxury of a good deal of deontology — better to let ten guilty men go free, and so on.
One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic 2009
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Civilian life affords us the luxury of a good deal of deontology — better to let ten guilty men go free, and so on.
One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word deontology
JM reckons of all the ontologies that deontology is the one up against it!
March 24, 2011
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"I have no idea what is happening in the world beyond my bedroom, but I can write a really good essay on deontology and natural moral law." -Twitter, April 16, 2016
April 17, 2016