Name : Luyện Minh Thư
Student ID: 11184753
Class : Advanced Accounting 60
HOMEWORK CHAPTER 4
– Deontology –
1, What is deontology?
Deontology ethical theory determines whether an action is right or wrong regardless of
its consequence. According to deontology, an action could be morally right based on
the nature of the action itself. An action is right or wrong because of what it is.
Deontological ethics says that being good consists in meeting all your obligations.
Kant’s moral system is deontological theory. In Kant’s ethics, an action has moral
worth if it is done for the sake of duty. An action is morally right if its maxim can be
willed as a universal law. We should always treat humanity, whether in ourselves or
other people, as an end in itself and never merely as means to an end.
2, Use the theory of deontology to express your idea about the right thing to do in the
