The word deontology derives from the Greek words for duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

What is the basis for the "ought" in deontology or the valuation of consequences in consequential ethics?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Telic View of the Universe] Reference

There is another school of thought withing ethics called deontology, which, says that virtue should be judged by intentions.    From Wordnik.com.  [carinosa34 Diary Entry] Reference

Still, the critic of deontology may not be satisfied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Yet deontology as such does not require retributivism to be true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

The deontology is there but the substantive functionality is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Institutions] Reference

It's a matter of faith (deontology) vs. works (consequentialism).    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Markets and Ideas, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

There are two varieties of threshold deontology that are worth distinguishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

The converse relationship between deontology and retributivism is also suspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

The alternative is what might be called “sliding scale threshold deontology.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Journalists should strive to return to the deontology and ethics of the profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Madagascar: Protester Freed, Journalists Demonstrate Against Censorship] Reference

Clarke's view thus far can be characterized as a variety of rationalist deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Clarke] Reference

It is not clear what Moore's response to such a moderate deontology would have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moore's Moral Philosophy] Reference

My sense is that the brainscan stuff refutes hard deontology and hard utilitarianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex)] Reference

The problem with this sort of deontology-lite is it falls apart with acts of copying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why not qualify the taking away of virtual objects as theft?] Reference

Gutting accepts the deontology of the classical picture, but proposes a different duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

The second kind of agent-centered deontology is one focused on actions, not mental states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Patient-centered versions of deontology cannot easily escape this problem, as we have shown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Nor does this version of deontology fail to give everyone's interest impartial consideration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

And one needn't be a raving deontologist to recognize that deontology isn't merely solipsistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A bit more on Holy Communion and non-Catholic Christians] Reference

(Katz 1996) Some of these worries motivate the alternative, victim-centered views of deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

In other words, classic Jeremy Bentham utilitarianism versus Pareto-efficient Kantian deontology?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Loses From Efficiency?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Two items of interest to deontology generally have come out of the literature on legal obligation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

For the record, whether my position is deontological or not depends on what you mean by deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why should natural lawyers care about teaching freed-market economics?] Reference

A fourth problem is that threshold deontology threatens to collapse into a kind of consequentialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Yet still other of such critics attempt to articulate yet a fourth form of agent-centered deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Alternatively, some of such critics are driven to patient-centered deontology, which we discuss below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

(Nozick 1974) This latter position does not erase the difference between consequentialism and deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

This entry will not go into the many issues that arise in the discussion of deontology and consequentialism here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authority] Reference

A third kind of agent-centered deontology can be obtained by simply conjoining the other two agent-centered views.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Thirdly, there is the manipulability worry mentioned before with respect to agent-centered versions of deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

Some theorists believe that retributivism and deontology go hand in hand, in the sense that one requires the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

If that is true, then weaknesses with those metaethical accounts will weaken deontology as a normative theory of action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

A fundamental worry is the moral unattractiveness of the focus on the self as the nerve of any agent-centered deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

As an alternative to consequentialism and deontology both of which consider “thin” concepts such as “goodness” and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environmental Ethics] Reference

Stocker (1976) raises another, more general concern for consequentialism and deontology arising out of a conception of friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship] Reference

The second plausible response is for the deontologist to abandon Kantian absolutism for what is usually called “threshold deontology.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference