Deontological (duty-based ... provides 'certainty' Consequentialist ethical theories bring a degree of uncertainty to ethical decision-making, in that no-one can be certain about what consequences ...

Kantian theory instructs people to act in harmony with universally accepted rules. Telling the truth is at the heart of this deontological theory (Kant, 1996). Though Kant had no way of knowing ...

explore psychological arguments for and against familiar moral theories including utilitarianism, virtue ethics, deontology and relativism, and confront the proposal that understanding the origins of ...