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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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The deontologist might attempt to back this assertion by relying upon the separateness of persons.
Thus a deontologist calls people good if they have charity, but calls conduct right if it is neither intrinsically wrong nor disproportionate.
So, for an absolute deontologist, instructions about what to do in the face of uncertainty can only be pragmatic.
One need not be a deontologist in order to at least raise some issues with this approach.
However, they hold that the advantage of consequentialism over deontologist systems is that it proposes an object to be attained.
As a deontologist would put it, these are moral causes that speak to us directly.

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