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Meanings of deontology in English

The ethical study of morals, duties, obligations, and rights, with an approach focusing on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves and not on the goodness or badness of the consequences of those actions.

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Usage of deontology in English
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In the order of sciences, Ethics are antecedent to Natural Theology; Deontology, consequent upon it.
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law
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Deontology (and its stronger version, absolutism) constrain the means.
Financial Crime and Corruption
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In a posthumous work, entitled Deontology, his principles were farther illustrated, chiefly with reference to the minor morals and amiable virtues.
Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
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109-176 that on Deontology.
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law