Briefly explain deontology, including the core concept of the Categorical Imperative.
What is deontology, to Kant and those who hold deontology to be true, deontology is a
believe in good will and the intrinsically good for goodness sake. “moral philosophy
should say something about the ultimate end of human endeavor, the Highest Good, and
its relationship to the moral life” was Kant’s belief (Rogers, Ch .7, Sec 3). Kant argued
we possess autonomy, “have the ability to make our own decisions and to live by them
rather than being totally subject to determination by the laws of natural causality like
other kinds of agents in the world”, thus it is ones duty to do the right thing. Duty, “doing
the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do, not because one benefits in some
