Deontologist

A Deontologist is a moral agent whose personal moral system can be mapped to deontological system.

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• Example(s):
  • Immanuel Kant.
  • Alexander von Humboldt.
  • W. D. Ross.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Consequentialist, such as Jeremy Bentham or John Stuart Mill.
  • a Supernaturalist, such as a Blaise Pascal.
  • a Dualist, such as Rene Descartes.
  • an Existentialist?.
  • a Materialist.
• See: Ethical Intuitionist, Communist, Utopianist, Idealist, Plato.

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References

2012

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
  • QUOTE: … And within that domain, deontologists — those who subscribe to deontological theories of morality — stand in opposition to consequentialists.

2010

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/duty_1.shtml
  • QUOTE: Deontologists live in a universe of moral rules, such as:
    • It is wrong to kill innocent people.
    • It is wrong to steal.
    • It is wrong to tell lies.
    • It is right to keep promises.
  • Someone who follows Duty-based ethics should do the right thing, even if that produces more harm (or less good) than doing the wrong thing: People have a duty to do the right thing, even if it produces a bad result.

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