DEONTOLOGY – BORN AND KEPT IN SERVITUDE BY UTILITARIANISM

Deontology – Born and Kept in Servitude by Utilitarianism

The distinction between teleology and deontology is today almost universally accepted within practical philosophy, but deontology is and has from the beginning been subordinate to utilitarianism. ‘Deontology’ was constructed by Bentham to signify the art and science of private morality within a utilitarian worldview. The classical distinction was constructed by Broad as a refinement of Sidgwick...

Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Deontology

Epistemic deontology is the view that the concept of epistemic justification is deontological: a justified belief is, by definition, an epistemically permissible belief. I defend this view against the argument from doxastic involuntarism, according to which our doxastic attitudes are not under our voluntary control, and thus are not proper objects for deontological evaluation. I argue that, in ...

Professional deontology and medical practice in prisons.

OBJECTIVE To study the knowledge on professional deontology amongst doctors in prisons. MATERIALS AND METHOD Descriptive, transversal and multi-centre study. Labour, collegiate, social, demographic and deontological variables were collected. A descriptive analysis of the variables was performed. A bivariate analysis was made by binary logistic regression models, attending to the odds ratio, a...

100 years of servitude.

Utilitarianism and Personal Identity