Deontological ethics

Moreland, J. P. (n.d.). Ethics Theories: Utilitarianism Vs. Deontological Ethics - Christian Research Institute. Retrieved July 28, 2015, from http://www.equip.org/article/ethics-theories-utilitarianism-vs-deontological-ethics/ Personal values, beliefs, family background, socio-economic status and culture has direct relationship with the decision making capacity of an individual. For instance, most of people who have grown in poor socio-economic status are always in stressful situation because…

paper summarizes the various ideologies that are associated with utilitarianism and deontological ethics concerning human behavior and the ethical or unethical decisions and /or actions of those working in law enforcement. It contrasts between the utilitarianism and deontological ethical arguments as they relate to law enforcement. It highlights various justifications and objections to the utilitarianism and deontological ethical theories in law enforcement. The issue of trust and legitimacy in…

Kant’s theories are based around Deontological ethics which revolves around our duties. His categorical imperatives are composed of three different formulations, but I am only going to be focusing on the first two for this paper. These theories, in my opinion, are too demanding of us and irrational. You cannot categorize everything as he did because it’s an unreliable method. Kant sees everything in black and white and the world is too complex to be divided into that, there is a lot of grey area…

Within the umbrella of Deontological Ethics, which depends on a basis of principles is a theory called, Natural Law Ethics. Thomas Aquinas, well-known philosopher was the founder of this theory. Within the Natural Law Theory, each person is born with an intrinsic “set of laws governing conducts” (Feinberg & Feinberg, 2010). These particular laws, Feinberg claims are related to the purpose for which the subject was created. Since nature does not change, these ethical norms are absolute and never…

how people make these decisions is called deontological ethics. There are multiple versions of this theory, but ultimately the definition is best explained by Alexander and Moore’s explanation: “deontology falls within the domain of moral theories that guide and assess our choices of what we ought to do, in contrast to virtue theories that—fundamentally, at least—guide and assess what…

Sorry, I got off the subject. So, in my moral compass: I have learned not to depend on Immanuel Kant’s deontological ethics, known as the Duty-Based Approach (University, 2018). He thought the right and wrong of our actions does not depend on our consequences but whether we fulfill our duty. I think having workplace values helps create a sound workplace ethical culture (Heathfield, 2016). Some of the values would be: • integrity -being honest when I make a mistake, not using company time for my…

According to Pozgar (2016), the deontological theory of ethics focusses on one’s duty towards another, or another’s rights, to determine what is ethical behavior. The outcome of the behavior is not the focus. As long as the behavior supports one’s duty to another then it is considered ethical. In the case of Vogelsburger v. Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC (PA Super, 2006), the plaintiff sued the hospital for medical malpractice, due to the complications she experienced while being administered…

thousands of choices. I am sure I made some unethical choices, choices that only benefited me and choices that benefited the greatest amount of people and resulted in providing the greatest amount of happiness for myself and others. Before I took Ethics class, I never thought that there are different ethical theories; I thought people act based on their moral and religious believes. The toughest choice I had to make was when I first started working at the bank. Per most of the banks’…

criminal offence are simultaneously considered when discussing criminal acts such as certain forgery, so can the case[s] of plagiarism be approached based on two conflicting perspectives. In the light of ethics which is foundation for conduct regulation, one is categorized as deontological ethics and the other as teleological one. In other words, some people seem to think that results outweigh causes while others place a greater…

Now that Lars Aanning has been working as a patient advocate in a sense that he is exposing medical cover ups he is now displaying deontological ethics. Deontological ethics is collectively known as duty based ethics where the consequences of the action will determine what is right. Some of these duties that are due to society are telling the truth and keeping promises to others. Based on this criteria, it is now more important…