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Deontology - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun deontology

is the ethical study of duties, obligations, and rights, with an approach focusing on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves and not on the goodness or badness of the consequences of those actions.

deontology

Noun

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  • (ethics) The ethical study of duties, obligations, and rights, with an approach focusing on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves and not on the goodness or badness of the consequences of those actions.
  • Coordinate terms

    * consequentialism * utilitarianism

    Derived terms

    * deontological * deontologist

    References

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    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.