GROUP 3

DEOTOLOGY
DEOTOLOGY

• A moral theory that Evaluates Actions that are done because of duty.
• Comes From the Greek word “DEON” Which means “BEING NECESSARY”
• Study of duty obligation
• An approach to ethics that focuses on the rightness or wrongness pf actions themselves, as opposed to
the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions.
DUTY: A MORAL OR LEGAL OBLIGATION: A
RESPONSIBILITY

• PROPONENT OF DEOTOLOGY
• EMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804)
German Enlightenment philosopher who wrote one of the most important works on moral
philosophy. “We human beings, have the Faculty called Rational will, which is the capacity to act according
to principles that we determine for ourselves”
• Rationality – mental faculty to construct ideas amd thoughts that arr beyond our unmediate
surroundings.

• Autonomy – opposite of heteromy

- self –law.

Heteronomy- other’s law

• Free choice- determinable only by inclination would be animal choice.

• Pure reason- rationality was desemble as the that are beyond one’s inmediate surroundings.

• Universalizability- A substances moral theory immediately promulgates the specific actions that
comprise that theory.

Example. 10 Commandments
• “act only according to sych a macim, by which you can at onece will that it become a universal
law.”(Ak.4:421).

• Categorical imperchive- provides a procedural way of identifying the rightness or wrongness of an

action.

• Four Elements
Maximum- consists of a rule that we live by in our day-to-day wives. It depicts the patterns of our
bahavior.p
• Agency- A moral agent is a person who has the ability to discern right from wrong and to be held
accountable for his or her own actions. Moral agents have a moral responsibility not to cause
unjustified harm.

• Rational Will- Rationality is permissibility. It is easy to prove that if the notions of a belief's

being “justified” or “rational” are normative at all, then thepermissibility of a belief is sufficient
for the belief's being justified orrational.
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