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Deontology vs Neontology - What's the difference?

deontology | neontology |

As nouns the difference between deontology and neontology

is that deontology is (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 while neontology is (biology) the study of organisms living in the current era.

deontology

English

(wikipedia deontology)

Noun

(-)
  • (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

    Related terms

    * deontic

    References

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    neontology

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (biology) the study of organisms living in the current era

    • Usage notes

    * Used in contrast to paleontology