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The word deontology comes from the root 'deon' meaning duty. By definition, it suggests that we are obligated to live by certain rules that dictate what is right and what is wrong. Deontologists accept these rules freely and don't look at the consequences of specific acts but the nature of the acts themselves. In accepting these rules a deontologist tells us what we should not do rather than what we should do. Immanuel Kant (1724 1804) stated in an inaugural address at the University of Konigsberg, in East Prussia, that his goal was to restructure philosophy. In Kant's view ethics and mora...
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