deontology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek δέω (déō)
Ancient Greek δεῖ (deî)lbor.
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English deontology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δέον (déon, “that which is binding, needful, proper, or right”) + English -ology (variant of -logy (suffix denoting a branch of learning or a study of a particular subject)). Δέον (Déon) is the neuter present participle of δεῖ (deî, “it behoves one to, it is necessary to, one must”), from δέω (déō, “to bind, tie; to fasten; to fetter”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₁- (“to bind”).
Sense 1 (“synonym of ethics”) was coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) to refer to censorial or dicastic ethics (ethics based on judgment), while sense 1.1 (“normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether the action follows certain obligations or rules”) derives from the use of the word deontological by the English philosopher Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887–1971) in his book Five Types of Ethical Theory (1930).
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
form: deontologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ethics (“the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct”).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [Matthew Hale] was no reformer: nothing better than an expounder: every thing stated by him was stated as he found it, or conceived it to be: no inquiries as to what it ought to be: in the eyes of lawyers—not to speak of the dupes—that is to say, as yet, the generality of non-lawyers—the is and the ought to be (or, as in Greek it would be so much better—the το ον and the το δεον, from which last, Ethics has received the more expressive name of Deontology), were one and indivisible.
The principle, then, on which Deontology is grounded, is the principle of Utility; in other words, that every action is right or wrong—worthy or unworthy—deserving approbation or disapprobation, in proportion to its tendency to contribute to, or to diminish the amount of public happiness.
And then she discoursed with voluble blandiloquence on deontologies and morals, and pondered with imposing gravity on ancient lores, and wisdoms, and beatifications, and in all her countenance seemeth as demure as a babe asleep.
[T]he main concern of the last two hundred and fifty years or so of ethics has been to assess the morality of actions or rules by themselves – act-and-rule utilitarianisms and deontologies – as opposed to an interpretation of actions within a morality of being.
William Frankena has altered [Charlie Dunbar] Broad's distinction slightly to define teleology as making consequences the "one and only … ultimate right-making characteristic" and to define deontology as allowing "that there are other considerations that may make an action or rule right or obligatory besides the goodness or badness of its consequences …"[…].
Deontologies that arise from status functions are not morally neutral. This is in part because of familiar issues such as that people are likely to rely on the observance of such deontologies, the wrongfulness of freeriding, and so on.
gloss: Synonym of ethics (“the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct”).
pos: noun
tags: specifically
uncountable
usually
Related words: deontic
Derived words: deontological
deontologist
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: դեոնտոլոգիա
roman: deontologia
lang: Azerbaijani
word: deontologiya
lang: Bashkir
word: деонтология
roman: deontologiya
lang: Catalan
word: deontologia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 本務論 /本务论
roman: běnwùlùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 道義論 /道义论
roman: dàoyìlùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 義務論 /义务论
roman: yìwùlùn
lang: Czech
word: deontologie
lang: Dutch
word: deontologie
lang: Esperanto
word: deontologio
lang: Finnish
word: deontologia
lang: Finnish
word: deontologinen etiikka
lang: Finnish
word: sääntöetiikka
lang: Finnish
word: velvollisuusetiikka
lang: Finnish
word: velvollisuusoppi
lang: French
word: déontologie
lang: Galician
word: deontoloxía
lang: Greek
word: δεοντολογία
roman: deontología
lang: Hungarian
word: deontológia
lang: Hungarian
word: kötelességetika
lang: Hungarian
word: kötelességtan
lang: Icelandic
word: skyldufræði
lang: Indonesian
word: tata susila
lang: Irish
word: dualeolaíocht
lang: Italian
word: deontologia
lang: Kazakh
word: деонтология
roman: deontologiä
lang: Kazakh
word: парызтану
roman: paryztanu
lang: Khmer
word: ករណីយកិច្ចវិទ្យា
roman: kɑɑnəyykeccɑɑvityiə
lang: Kyrgyz
word: деонтология
roman: deontologiya
lang: Lithuanian
word: deontologija
lang: Malay
word: deontologi
lang: Malay
word: tata susila
lang: Persian
word: اخلاق وظیفهگرا
lang: Polish
word: deontologia
lang: Russian
word: деонтология
roman: deontologija
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: деонтологија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: deontologija
lang: Slovak
word: deontológia
lang: Spanish
word: deontología
lang: Swedish
word: deontologi
lang: Turkish
word: deontoloji
lang: Ukrainian
word: деонтологія
roman: deontolohija
lang: Vietnamese
word: đạo nghĩa học