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What does deontological mean?

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Adjective
  1. (ethics) Of or relating to deontology.
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Classic utilitarianism is consequentialist as opposed to deontological because of what it denies.
It proposes to study the issue from three aspects: ethical, deontological, and legal.
Paul Taylor's version of this view, which we might call biocentrism, is a deontological example.
The high incidence of nominalization in the CMA code completes the message of authority given by the imperative mode and its deontological orientation.
A deficiency of virtue ethics theory is that, unlike the deontological and utilitarian theories, it does not provide principles for ethical decision making.
This should be followed by imparting ethical theories such as utilitarianism, virtue ethics and other aspects of deontological ethics.

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