UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA SALESIANA

Students: Walter Bau, Javier Martinez, Rayner Palta, Kleber Muy

Deontology homework

What do you think is deontology?

Deontology is the ethics of the profession, must with the follow rules and nothing else.

Can you apply it to your profession? In which way?

Yes, we can. Encouraging a good conscience in the programmers to be able to avoid crimes
such as those made by hackers.

How many types of deontology did the video present?

Two kinds.
Which ones?
Moral absolutism
Categorical imperative
Who is Kant? Who is Mill?
Kant was a German philosopher and one of the most important philosopher that existed.
Mill was an English philosopher, naturalist, utilitarian and liberal, whose work explores the
consequences of a thoroughgoing empirics outlook.
What is Kant’s philosophy? Is it correct or wrong? Why?
The Kant’s philosophy it’s about of transcendental idealism. He believed that the mind
shapes and structures experience, with all human experiences sharing certain structural
features.

I think that Kant’s philosophy it’s wrong cause all turns around about an absolutism law
where the reason doesn’t have participation.
Do you find it acceptable or not?
No, I don’t. Cause as I said his philosophy consist about to follow a kind of rules. This rules
are not bad or good but; however not matter what happen we must still be following that
rules even if you know that is wrong
What it is consequentialism?
The consequentialism is the view of the moral and it hold that principles like justice, rights,
and duties are only instrumentally valuable, these are only morally important considerations
if acting in accordance with them will lead to the best outcome.

What about using your will when following the categorical imperative? What do you
understand of it? Is it somethinsg you understand? Why do you have to use your free will
to do things?

No, I don’t. Because it's supposed that we always have to act according to the same rules
that we want to everyone else to follow.