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BALAQUIT, RN
DEONTOLOGY
coined by Charlie Dunbar Broad came from the Greek words:
“deon” = obligation or duty
“logos”= inquiry or study
means an ethical study or ethical inquiry regarding duty
an approach to ethics that puts focus on the rightness or wrongness
of actions; it is, therefore, not interested of the consequences of
those actions
It is opposite to teleological and consequential ethical theories since
both emphasize the rightness or the wrongness of certain actions
based on their consequences.