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Deontology
TeleologyDeontological ethics or deontology (from Greek δέον, deon, "obligation, duty"; and -λογία, -logia) is an approach to ethics that focuses on the rightness or wrongness of intentions or motives behind action such as respect for rights, duties, or principles, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions.
Basically, deontological schools hold that the 'rightness' or 'wrongness' of an action is inherent in the nature of the act itself, whereas the teleological schools hold that the consequences of the action determine its value. What position do you agree with? Most forms of monotheism adhere to a command-ethic that is firmly rooted in dentology, as do the ethical systems of absolutists such as Kant and Hegel. Teleological thinkers include Utilitarians, Machiavellians, and Pragmatists.Teleological ethics (Greek telos, “end”; logos, “science”) is a theory of morality that derives duty or moral obligation from what is good or desirable as an end to be achieved. It is opposed to deontological ethics (from the Greek deon, "duty"), which holds that the basic standards for the moral rightness of an action are independent of the good or evil generated by the ethics. Modern ethics, especially since the 18th-century German deontological philosophy of Immanuel Kant, has been deeply divided between a form of teleological ethics (utilitarianism) and deontological theories.
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