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Definition of Deontologists
1. deontologist [n] - See also: deontologist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deontologists
Literary usage of Deontologists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Album of the Cambridge Garrick Club: Containing Original and Select by Garrick Club, Cambridge, England Garrick Club (Cambridge (1836)
"These worthy deontologists must however pardon us for distrusting their remedy,
since we disbelieve the disease. In the first place, let us enquire of those ..."
2. Radiological Protection of the Environment, the Path Forward to a New Policy by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2002)
"Thus deontologists and utilitarians disagree on a fundamental ethical issue: the
deontologist claims that ... The deontologists' concern for the individual ..."
3. The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on by Gareth J. Evans, Mohamed Sahnoun (2001)
"For deontologists, the good is in the act itself, and intentions matter.
This approach underpins most rights-based approaches to ethics, and it highlights ..."
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