The Importance Of Deontology

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Philosophy may literally mean the ‘love of wisdom’ as it is deprived from two Greek words (Hales, 2012, p. vii), but as a whole is much more than the love of wisdom and critical reflection; it is more about “giving good reasons for one’s non-empirical beliefs…[and] to give arguments for believing claims about nature of the self, or the existence of God, or moral duty, or the value of knowledge” (Hales, 2012, p. vii). Therefore, I agree that philosophy also sheds light on many disciplines centrally explored. For the purpose of this essay I will discuss deontology, the philosophy of religion and touch bass on other disciplines slightly as a reference to how philosophy sheds light on many disciplines.

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Deontology binds us to our duties and judges the morality of an action on whether it aligns with our accepted beliefs. It focuses on motives, rather than consequences, thus giving actions intrinsic, rather than instrumental value. Bowie (2004) describes this as, “the important thing isn’t the result or the consequence of the action, but the action itself”(p. 37). Deontology can take various forms including rights and contractualism, however the most popular are Divine ethics, which is absolute moral duty to God and Kantian Duty based ethics, which is absolute morality based on duty itself. Immanuel Kant’s deontology outlined in ‘Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals’ rests on the premise that you should only act because it is morally necessary or human duty, rather than to please god (Johnson, 2014). Thus, in agreement with Kant that you should judge morality from the will of its agent because you cannot control consequences demonstrated how philosophy sheds light into other

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