Deontological Ethics Deontological is a philosophical point of view that focuses on ethics in terms of the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves rather than the soundness or unsoundness of the actions outcomes or the individual s disposition. To a deontologist, however, regardless of whether an action was good or...
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The Prominent Moral Philosophers: John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant The prominent moral philosophers are John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant. While they were around the same time metaphysical, they included different principles of happiness and ethics. Kant had faith in duty ethics and good will. In contrast with his mission...
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David Hume is a philosopher whose reputation and importance in philosophy owes to his very brave critical approach to a number of philosophical issues. Hume challenged existing notions of causality and suggested that in the real world itself the human interpretation of relationship of cause and effect is affected by...
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