Deontological ethics
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- | '''Deontological ethics''' or '''deontology''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ''δέον (deon)'' meaning 'obligation' or 'duty') is an approach to [[ethics]] that focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions. ''Let justice be done though the heavens fall!'' is one of its proud slogans. | + | '''Deontological ethics''' or '''deontology''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ''δέον (deon)'' meaning 'obligation' or 'duty') is an approach to [[ethics]] that focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions. ''Let [[justice]] be done though the heavens fall!'' is one of its proud slogans. |
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Deontological ethics or deontology (Greek: δέον (deon) meaning 'obligation' or 'duty') is an approach to ethics that focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions. Let justice be done though the heavens fall! is one of its proud slogans.
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