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What is a deontologist?

What is a deontologist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (ethics) A philosopher or other thinker who advocates or employs a deontological approach to ethics.
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Thus a deontologist calls people good if they have charity, but calls conduct right if it is neither intrinsically wrong nor disproportionate.
Patient-centered deontologists handle differently other stock examples of the agent-centered deontologist.
The deontologist might attempt to back this assertion by relying upon the separateness of persons.
As a deontologist would put it, these are moral causes that speak to us directly.
So, for an absolute deontologist, instructions about what to do in the face of uncertainty can only be pragmatic.
However, they hold that the advantage of consequentialism over deontologist systems is that it proposes an object to be attained.

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