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	Field Guide to the Ethical ISMs - Ethics Terms and Terminology - Brief Glossary
		Deontological (non-consequentialist) theories – Generally, a normative stance that views what should be done as determined by fundamental principles that do not derive solely or even primarily from consequences.
		Feminist theories – Ethics from a feminist perspective places emphasis on "care," and so is sometimes are referred to as "care ethics." It sees itself as a challenge to the dominant (and male-biased) deontological and consequentialist approaches.
		Normative ethics – The philosophical attempt to formulate and defend basic moral principles and virtues governing the "moral life"; concerned with what ought to be done.
	privacy.med.miami.edu /glossary/x_ism_guide.htm (3377 words)

	Survey of Ethics
		Ethics is divided into three general areas, metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
		From deontological ethics, the language of "rights" and "obligations" in the context of the process of the design of a cooperative society seems to capture...
		In ethics, this amounts to saying that all moralities are equally good; in epistemology it implies that all beliefs, or belief systems, are equally true.
	cs.wwc.edu /~aabyan/Philosophy/Ethics/survey.html (3191 words)

	ADLER ARCHIVE: The Ethics of Common Sense
		In contrast, the deontological ethics of Kant or of his followers is, by the self-limitations it insists on--the exclusion of all reference to matters of fact as bearing on means and ends--a moral philosophy that is neither empirical nor practical.
		The solution offered by "situation ethics" is itself unsound, for it appeals to love and love alone, and worse, to a mode of love that transcends the bounds of human nature, in order to find some form of guidance for the individual in the particular case in which he must act one way or another.
		When I said earlier that a purely deontological ethics is a moral philosophy that is not practical, I had in mind the fact that it denies the indispensability of practical thinking on this level, as well as on the even more practical level below it.
	radicalacademy.com /adlerethics.htm (3040 words)

	Ethics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When compared to normative ethics and applied ethics, the field of metaethics is the least precisely defined area of moral philosophy.
		The key assumption in normative ethics is that there is only one ultimate criterion of moral conduct, whether it is a single rule or a set of principles.
		Applied ethics is the branch of ethics which consists of the analysis of specific, controversial moral issues such as abortion, animal rights, or euthanasia.
	www.utm.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /research/iep/e/ethics.htm (6483 words)

	ethics, utilitarianism, virtue, deontological, medical, business, duty, consequentialism, teleological, egoism, ...
		Ethics is defined as the study of the moral value of human behavior.
		Ethics as a division of philosophy uses the methods of philosophy, not the methods of religion.
		This is ethical theory that ethics should develop character traits or virtues in a person so that person will do what is morally right because they are a virtuous person.
	www.philosophyclass.com /ethics.htm (712 words)

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		Ethics are the moral principles, rules or standards that govern the way an individual or group conducts its activities.
		Ethics are concerned with the development of moral standards of conduct that can be used to judge specific situations.
		Deontological ethics focus on the welfare of the individual and emphasize means and intentions for justifying an act.
	www.marketing.auburn.edu /hguffey/mt4360/ethics.htm (617 words)

	Conventional Env Ethics
		Nature law ethics is one of the major approaches in ethical theory developed by Aristotle and by medieval theologians, and it is similar to views found in Chinese thought.
		Virtue ethics criticizes the moral rationalism of utilitarianism and deontological ethics, arguing that they reduce the complexity of moral issues in the search for the single correct moral view.
		In virtue ethics, morality is an essential part of one’s personality and disposition; it includes both actions and attitudes and is your basic way of relating to the world.
	www.uwosh.edu /faculty_staff/barnhill/ES_282/es_282_ethics.html (1104 words)

	essays research papers fc -- Deontological Ethics
		When ethics is explored, and an inquiry into its origin and sources are explored to find definition and clarity around ethics, one initial discovery will be that two main views on ethical behavior emerge.
		Ethics and ethical decisions surround themselves around what is the goodness or badness of any particular choice or decision.
		Deontological theories of ethics are almost synonymous with Kantianism, after a philosopher, Immanual Kant.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=61857 (1637 words)

	Ethics
		Ethics seeks to provide insight, principles, or even a system of guidance in the quest of the good life or in acting rightly in either general or specific situations of life.
		Broadly speaking, ethical systems are either deontological (seeking to guide behavios through establishment or discovery of what is intrinsically right and wrong) or teleological (seeking to guide behavior through an understanding of the outcomes or ends that ethical decisions and behavior bring about).
		Futility in Non-Christian Ethics by Samuel Waldron M.Div.
	www.monergism.com /thethreshold/articles/topic/ethics.html (692 words)

	the evangelical outpost: Comment on Expert Witness: Nick Troester on Deontological Ethics
		We accept this by faith, and proceed to live by His commands in a manner which has given rise to deontological ethics in the default of the eschatological conscience which forms the essence of Christian morality.
		In other words, deontological ethics is the post-Christian adequation of Christian morality, in much the manner that epistemology is the post-Christian adequation of Christian assurance that the universe is knowable because God wishes to reveal Himself through it.
		Ethics are not your problem, at all--the fact that you prefer to be an enemy of God rather than His friend/child/servant (sorry, those don't contradict each other) is the problem.
	www.evangelicaloutpost.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1337 (4178 words)

	Deontological ethics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Other examples of deontological theorists include the English philosopher John Locke and the modern-day philosopher John Rawls.
		Locke held that individual persons have rights that are part of the natural law of the world, and that actions (including the death penalty, which he advocated) can be judged as right or wrong based on whether they respect these rights.
		According to Rand, Kant's morality is perverse because it condemns those who pursue their own happiness and encourages people to submit to a set of deontological principles that lead to "eternal suffering".
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Deontology (872 words)

	INTRO TO DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All Deontological theories of ethics share a common feature, they all maintain that the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by some intrinsic feature of an act.
		Act Deontological theories are usually called 'Intuitionist' theories because they argue humans have a special moral faculty or intuition by which we perceive our obligations.
		Rule Deontological theories are usually called 'Rationalist' theories since they claim it is the human capacity for reason which enables us to come to know our obligations toward one another.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~bfvaughan/text/105/notes/deontology/intro.html (296 words)

	20th WCP: On Foundation Problems of Normative and Educational Ethics: Some Actual Considerations Referring to Ancient ...
		Kants’ ethics tried to superate the aposterioric ethics of the English empiricists, claiming, with the rationalists, a law of reason apriori, but in doing so he did not follow the way of pure rationalism.
		The deontological viewpoint is correct in that the moral good is comprehensible a priori and has a formal aspect in comparison with every material good which has to be experienced a posteriori from the consequences of the actions.
		Concerning the combination of empiricist and rationalistic determinations of morality which is typical for the kantian ethics and most of the postkantian positions, it seeks for a compromise between the individual selfish interests and the common welfare of men, which must cover — in the middle — the sum of the individual selfish interests.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/TEth/TEthSeid.htm (3768 words)

	Deontological Ethics Resource and Information - Today CTHRB takes a look at "Deontological Ethics" and... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is opposed to deontological ethics (from the Greek deon, "duty"), which...
		deontological moral theory might hold that lying is wrong, even if it produces good consequences.
		The common definitions of teleological and deontological ethics, in terms of means and ends...
	www.cthrb.ca /Resource/deontological-ethics.shtml (386 words)

	20th WCP: Inherent and Instrumental Values in Ethics
		The essential causal connection between morality and happiness, typical of the teleological ethics, is replaced by an accidental one, dependent on fortunate circumstances, such as health or wealth or, in the other-worldly existence, on the good graces of a benevolent Deity conceived as a moral postulate.
		In the domain of ethics, some philosophers attempt to refute the relativist argument that the varieties of ethical standards world-wide prove the non-existence of absolute and universally valid moral standards by arguing that these varieties of standards can be explained just as well through people's ignorance of the right standards as through their non-existence.
		No more successful is the attempt by the same philosophers to refute another relativist argument which asserts that the foundation or arguments in support of the absolute ethical standard is unknown by claiming that, though such a foundation is presently unknown, it is always possible that it could be discovered or devised in the future.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Valu/ValuRiuk.htm (3611 words)

	Center for Ethics and Business
		Kant's initial formulation of the categorical imperative reflects the belief that since ethics is essentially a rational enterprise, ethical principles should have the same character as such rational activities as logic and mathematics.
		A less technical way of describing a deontological approach, however, might be to say that the ultimate ethical standard is whether an action fits with, is consistent with or is appropriate to the fact that it is done to or performed by a being of a special sort--one that is rational and free.
		Between teleological and deontological approaches to ethics, then, we see the basic elements that can be used in determining the ethical character of actions.
	www.ethicsandbusiness.org /strat3.htm (1546 words)

	DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roughly, a deontological theory denies in some way that the good or what is of value, always takes priority over the right or duty.
		Theories holding that there are absolute rights for instance, are deontological in this sense, since they hold that some rights must not be violated even if it would produce the most overall good.
		It would simply argue for this deontological cast of mind, as it were, for teleological reasons.
	showme.missouri.edu /~philrnj/deon.html (919 words)

	Key Distinctions for Value Theories, and the Importance of Hume
		The common definitions of teleological and deontological ethics, in terms of means and ends, result in some logical confusion that is a real source of error in the history of ethics.
		This has been a source of great confusion in ethics, where we often have the sense that because "only the means count" and "only the ends count" are logically exclusive (they cannot both be true), they are therefore logical contradictories (the falsehood of one implies that truth of the other), which they are not.
		I am discussing Grassian here because the book is familiar to me, having used it in my ethics classes for a number of years, and because it seems to be representative, in ideology, to other contemporary ethics textbooks that I have examined.
	www.friesian.com /key.htm (5137 words)

	Consequentialism, deontological ethics, and prima facie duties at Law & Society Blog
		In a recent post, I claimed rather traditionally that consequentialism and deontological ethics are based on two basic moral intuitions that coexist peacefully over a wide range of normal situations but lead to sharply different results in extreme situations.
		One Response to “Consequentialism, deontological ethics, and prima facie duties”;
		There are at least three governing principles which are key to practical ethics (as in law): comprimise between two virtues, seek the mean between two opposed vices, and comprimise the needs of principles and those of reality.
	www.lawsocietyblog.com /archives/202 (1418 words)

	Ethics : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		Finally, ethics is that area of philosophy concerned with the study of ethics in its other senses (see Ethics in Islamic philosophy).
		In the second half of the twentieth century there was a reaction against some of the perceived excesses of consequentialist and deontological ethics, and a return to the ancient notion of the virtues (see Aretē; Theological virtues; Virtue ethics; Virtues and vices).
		One area in which ethics has always played an important role is medicine, in particular in issues involving life and death (see Bioethics; Bioethics, Jewish; Life and death; Medical ethics; Suicide, ethics of).
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/L132 (1824 words)

	GSLIS Ethics Intro
		One problem with consequentialist ethics is the difficulty of predicting all the results of any given action.
		An example of deontological ethics is the reasoning used by framers of the U.S. Constitution to support the rights of man. They started with the "nature of man" and derived rights, by ethical implication, from that nature: if "man" is "essentially rational," then "he" has a natural right to what's needed to exercise his rationality.
		In the case of research ethics, the conflict is between our human need for knowledge on the one hand, and the needs and rights of potential research subjects on the other.
	www.uri.edu /artsci/lsc/Faculty/geaton/Ethics/?N=A (783 words)

	Paul's crime and justice Page: criminal justice ethics: jeffrey reiman explains kantian and deontological ethics
		His view is of a type called “deontological” because it aims to show how there can be moral requirements that do not depend on whether the actions required produce good consequences.
		And such a moral view is deontological in that it arrives at its judgments without considering all the consequences of the acts under consideration.
		There's an additional discussion about the role of consequences of actions in the area of deontological ethics and a brief essay outlining the deontological objections to consequentialism.
	www.paulsjusticepage.com /cjethics/intro/deontological.htm (1639 words)

	Professional Ethics: Lecture Notes: University of West Georgia - Robert Lane, Ph.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		deontological theories [from the Greek “deon”, meaning duty] (df.): normative theories according to which consequences are not all that make an action right or wrong; there are some things you have a duty to do, or a duty not to do, regardless of the consequences
		As different as utilitarianism and deontology are, they both assume the same approach to thinking about ethics: they assume that ethics ought to provide a guide for action, to tell us how we should act.
		Mill also recognized that people can be morally evaluated, based on their motives; but he held that the morality of actions was primary, and that in judging whether an action is right or wrong, we don't need to know anything about the motives behind it.
	www.westga.edu /~rlane/professional/lecture13_intro2_csr1.html (2063 words)

	Ethics
		Standards to defend personal ethics are often developed from types of deontological philosophies.
		The study of business ethics may have suffered due to the lack of a theoretical basis for most of the empirical research and much of the nonempirical writings.
		A sensitivity to ethics is particularly important in periods of deregulation.
	www.westga.edu /~bquest/1998/ethics.html (3705 words)

	Philosophy 528 - Quiz 1 - Troxell
		Deontological ethical theory emphasizes the notion of duty and principle.
		Deontological ethics is a duty-based ethics, in which certain rules are perpetually adhered to without deviation.
		An example of such ethics is Kant's categorical imperative to refrain from lying, that is, to be honest.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/troxell/528_s97/528quiz1.html (1451 words)

	Notes on Deontology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kant's theory is an example of a deontological or duty-based ethics : it judges morality by examining the nature of actions and the will of agents rather than goals achieved.
		(Roughly, a deontological theory looks at inputs rather than outcomes.) One reason for the shift away from consequences to duties is that, in spite of our best efforts, we cannot control the future.
		Deontological ethics is strongest in many of the areas where utilitarianism is weakest.
	webs.wofford.edu /kaycd/ethics/deon.htm (614 words)

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