Deontology, Grupo 1 – Period 56

1FINAL INFORM UNIT 1

DARWIN DUCHI
JOEL ORDOÑEZ
GERMÁN RIVERA
DANNY TORRES

Politécnica Salesiana University

Electronic Engineering
April 18, 2020.
 Professional Deontology
It refers to the branch of ethics whose object of study is those foundations of duty and

moral standards (Korkonosenko, 2013), it to an ordered set of moral duties and obligations that

professionals in a given field have. Deontology comes from the Greek “deontos” = meaning the

necessary, the due. The term professional ethics refers to the set of principles and ethical rules

that regulate and guide a professional activity.

A fundamental characteristic of professional deontology is that it has a strong component

of self-regulation oriented in a collective sense.

Broad sense: the deontology includes all the rules, professional statutes and the collective

work agreements.

Strict sense: systematic set of rules, uses, principles and duties that are not going to be

supported by any legal sanction, but by a voluntary acceptance. (Korkonosenko, 2013)

Deontology is important because we cannot live without morality, that is, without a moral

rule to which our actions are submitted.

Importance of studying Deontology

There are several reasons that support the presence of the study of deontology in

university training. Professionals carry out an activity that is immersed in a changing world. To

do this, they must make decisions that take into account the common good for the society they

serve. It is necessary, therefore, that the students developed ethical learning, competencies and

values at the university, since it is the main institution that deals with professional, citizen and

scientific training. In this sense, teachers use different content and methodologies looking for
contextualized, complex learning situations, focused on student development and looking for

application capacity, problem solving and practical cases. The objective of this work is to detect

how the teaching and learning of ethics is currently found in the universities, given the

difficulties and barriers that some universities pose, unrelated to the importance of that this

training is urgent and necessary.

Difference Among Professional Ethics and Deontology

The difference when we talk about professional ethics and deontology is what the first

does a direct reference to the personal awareness, while what the second adopt a function of

model of performance in the area of a community.[ CITATION Pro \l 12298 ]

Difference Among Professional Ethics and Morality

The difference in what the professional ethics are the studying philosophical and

scientific of the morality and is theoretical, while what the morality is practical.

While both professional ethics and morality deal with distinguishing right from wrong,

ethics are usually associated with a practical set of rules that are to be followed in a professional

setting, such as a code of ethics in medicine, law, and business, whereas morals refer to an

individual’s personal principles. [ CITATION Edu \l 12298 ]

Axiology
 Is the philosophical study of value. It is either the collective term for ethics and

aesthetics, philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of worth, or the foundation for

these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics.[ CITATION Arc931 \l 12298 ]

Axiology and its relation with Deontology

Deontology must be built on the philosophical principles of freedom and utilitarianism,

which means that good or bad deeds of men can only be explained in terms of happiness or well-

being that can provide these very humanistic issues.

So we can say that the relationship between deontology and axiology is based on the set

of moral duties and obligations that professionals have considering the values that they have,

whether they are objective or subjective.[ CITATION Law1 \l 12298 ]

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