SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF

THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY, STOICISM, AND KANTIAN DEONTOLOGY.

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duty to God's laws. However, as

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Deontology is the study of

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obligation, derived from the
Greek word deon, which

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meaning "required." Kant, the

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ideology's principal proponent,

believed that humans have
rational will and may behave
Stoicism preaches the
according to our The Stoics, like Kant,

as
cultivation of self-control
he

predetermined ideals. He was

and fortitude as a method
of conquering harmful
emotions, whereas Divine
command theory is a
T meta-ethical theory that
posits that an action's
morality is comparable to
whether it is required by
God.
a staunch believer in the
function of logic in cultivating
the desire to do the
responsible thing.
believe that in moral
reasoning, we should
aim for the moral good.
They would simply argue
with Kant that this goal
may be achieved without
also reaching
eudaimonia.

Stoics believe that everything, including God

and man, is a matter. Humans, on the other
hand, have superior social and cerebral ability
than animals. As a result, unlike animals,
human acts should be motivated by logic
rather than emotion.

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Joanna Mae R. Rarela BSME2A