Deontological (duty-based) ethics are concerned with what people do, not with the consequences of their actions. Do the right thing. Do it because it's the right thing to do. Don't do wrong things.

Let me begin with a puzzle about the Kantian notion of recognition respect - the respect due to any person regardless of merit (moral or otherwise). It is sometimes thought that the object of respect, ...

origins of the concept of duty (acting morally according to the good regardless of consequences) in deontological and absolutist approaches to ethics what it is (a command to act to achieve a desired ...

Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, is quoted in your report “Trump promises to end forced separation of families” (June 21) as saying that it is a “moral imperative” to stop separating ...

Mainstream economics has long struggled to model ethical behaviour, including what is perhaps its simplest type, altruism. The standard assumption of homo economicus, an agent who maximizes his ...