I’m back! I hope you all enjoyed my previous post on utilitarianism, and I wanted to make the next ethical school of thought in my mini-series Deontology, otherwise known as Kantian Ethics. Let’s follow the last post’s structure, shall we? Deontology was created by Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher who lived 1724-1804. Deontology is a tiny bit more complicated than utilitarianism, but overall it’s still pretty simple – here’s the overview: Deontology “does not depend exclusively on the consequences of an action to determine its morality.” There are, like with any ethical school of thought, different degrees: Immanuel Kant stated … Continue reading Ethical Schools of Thought: Deontology and Kantian Ethics