Deontology

Quick meaning: Deontology is a noun meaning Synonym of ethics (“the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct”).

Meaning

Synonym of ethics (“the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct”).

Example Sentences

And then she discoursed with voluble blandiloquence on deontologies and morals, and pondered with imposing gravity on ancient lores, and wisdoms, and beatifications, and in all her countenance seemeth as demure as a babe asleep.

Deontologies that arise from status functions are not morally neutral. This is in part because of familiar issues such as that people are likely to rely on the observance of such deontologies, the wrongfulness of freeriding, and so on.

[T]he main concern of the last two hundred and fifty years or so of ethics has been to assess the morality of actions or rules by themselves – act-and-rule utilitarianisms and deontologies – as opposed to an interpretation of actions within a morality of being.

The principle, then, on which Deontology is grounded, is the principle of Utility; in other words, that every action is right or wrong—worthy or unworthy—deserving approbation or disapprobation, in proportion to its tendency to contribute to, or to diminish the amount of public happiness.

Word Forms

• deontologies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ethical, ethic, conduct, deontics, ethicism, ethicology.

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