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What does deontology mean?

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Noun
  1. (ethics) ethics
  2. (ethics) the normative ethical position that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to rules or obligations rather than either the inherent goodness or the consequences of those actions.
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They are young and enthusiastic, but are without sufficient experience, in particular in the field of ethics and of journalistic deontology.
Nonnatural realism, conventionalism, transcendentalism, and Divine command seem more hospitable metaethical homes for deontology.
Thus we started with the activities to include statute and deontology, which is its crutch, to evoke the sharing of knowledge.
It e.g. covers areas like professional deontology, corporate governance, insider training prevention, money laundering and fraud prevention.
Some rules developed as customary law or in terms of deontology may also have an influence on the legal framework for trade secret protection.
More, insofar as ethics goes further than the framework of any deontology and necessarily includes concern for all aspects of social life.

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