deontology

Japanese: deontology
deontology

…There have been two contrasting tendencies since ancient times in the position of attempting to autonomously justify obligations as moral theories. One is the deontological position that considers obligations to be norms in their own right that cannot be reduced to anything else. The other is the teleological position that considers the obligation of an action to be determined by the result or goodness of the purpose it realizes, and is a means to that end. The latter is further divided into hedonism, egoism, utilitarianism, etc., depending on the content of the result and to whom it is directed. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "deontology" are listed below.

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Japanese:

… 道徳的理論として義務の自律的正当化を行おうとする立場には古来,二つの対照的な傾向が看取される。一つは,義務をそれ独自の,他に還元されえない規範と考える義務論deontologyの立場で,もう一つは,行為の義務をそれが実現する結果,目的のよさによって決定され,目的への手段であるとみる目的論teleologyの見地である。後者は結果の内容とそれがだれに向けられるかによって,さらに快楽主義,利己(他)主義,功利主義等に分かれる。…

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