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Deontological: action is considered morally good because of some characteristic of the action itself, not because the product of the action is good. Deontological ethics holds that at least some acts are morally obligatory regardless of their consequences for human welfare. Descriptive of such ethics are such expressions as “Duty for duty’s sake,” “Virtue is its own reward,” and “Let justice be done though the heavens fall.”(Encyclopædia Britannica. 2014)

Moral laws are general rather than fixed. Unlike the Divine Command theory of ethics, Natural Law ethics holds that morality is universal, not at the will of God but at the will of reason.

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The term deontological refers to philosophical ethics that belongs to the relation between duty and morality.

The statement suggests that an action is considered morally good because of some characteristics of the action itself, not because the product of action is good. The Kant’s philosophical thoughts enables with the goodness of things and virtue. Kant held that nothing is good without qualification except a good will, and a good will is one that wills to act in accord with the moral law.

The morality is seems to be universal but it varies from community to community and according to the beliefs and social norms. The natural law of ethics belong to the theory of cause and effects rather than general theory of moral action. The will of reason is more important than the will of God.

In my opinion, the moral laws developed by society rather than divine command so that we can elaborate these laws according to its acceptance.

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