Deontology and Morality~How does Deontology relate to morality?

Question

Deontology is an ethical theory concerned with duties and rights. Morality is the beliefs we use to determine whether our actions are right or wrong.

They are similiar in that they both concern duty, being right in our actions, and conducting ourselves morally.

I am at a loss. How else do these two relate to one another?
Help!

Answer 1

Deontic logic uses, inferentially, modus ponens and substitution, to deal with legal obligations and permitted behaviors.

It has a subdivision, involving "X is legal [required]" or "W is permitted," *given Z.* This moves deontic logic from straightforward "it is necessary that" or "it is possible that" to +/- or bifurcate "it is necessary/possible if...."


Second, morality is both "social and personal." I.e., "given--thus perceived, and accepted," and "more self-perceived, and accepted."

Beyond empirical and rational, beyond intuitive and revelatory, is another axis of moral in-forming: social and individual.

Thus, the deontic and the moral are both confluences of many factors.

To understand "morality" is to understand humanity. To connect any one of the myriad types of morality to the more formal deontic logic is more a matter of clarifying one's morality vis a vis a) legally obligated and b) permitted behavior.

"A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov,
"The Path of Virtue," Jonathan Murro,
"Ethical ESP," Ann Ree Colton,
"Climb the Highest Mountain," are examples of moral insights, each of which could be clarified/explicated, and hence plugged into deontic systemics.

cordially,

j.

Answer 2

The law, human law as developed in history against the infinite negativity of revenge. My right is my duty and my duty is my right, my self consciousness, my social relation with my self and my self with others is an agreement either by force or by common assent or a bit of both.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sp/osabstra.htm#OS493

'§ 502.

A distinction has thus emerged between the law (right) and the subjective will. The 'reality' of right, which the personal will in the first instance gives itself in immediate wise, is seen to be due to the instrumentality of the subjective will — whose influence as on one hand it gives existence to the essential right, so may on the other cut itself off from and oppose itself to it. Conversely, the claim of the subjective will to be in this abstraction a power over the law of right is null and empty of itself: it gets truth and reality essentially only so far as that will in itself realises the reasonable will. As such it is morality proper.'

Answer 3

Ah! the age old teleology deontology argument. It has been viewed traditionally as in issue of purpose and of course that monster free-will. Though I do not adhere to any ideology I do believe in Insight into goodness love and even Absolute Love. This may be a bit long winded however here goes. You maybe aware current trends in philosophy of mind suggest we concoct a story about our existences after we experience them based on work by nuerobiologist Libet. A functionalist will tell you the universe is determined and causally efficacious and free will is a misnomer. I just don't cop it. Though much of reality is determined there is still choice within the bounds of probability. You don't have infinite choice but a few options will generally suffice. My theoretical model is based around infinity and evolutionary complexification and self-organization that enhances the degrees of freedom in complex entities like brains. In a truly determinist universe there would be no time yet our brains have evolved to function through memory experience and expectation. The paradoxes and counterintuitives in mathematics, physics and linguistics plus Kurt godel's incompleteness theorem, enhanced by Gregory Chaitin, demonstrates that no system of mathematics or logic can ever be complete. There is no such thing as absolute knowledge. Getting back to infinity the now popular theoretical existence of infinite universes would predict infinte sentient civilizations. The exponential growth in technology, genetic engineering (see ray Kuzweil Wicki) and artificial intelligence will lead to systems that provide even greater degrees of freedom so, yes, choice is an evolving dimension of personality. If we take into account the symmetry violation at the origins of the universes that led to surplus matter over antimatter and project it onto natural selection we can see that sentient beings are geared for fight/flight and pleasure/ pain. The fascinating thing to me is that most of us would opt for pleasure over pain happiness over sadness, love over hate freedom over incarceration and so on. Contrary to conventional Darwinism there is a natural asymmetry towards, empathy, sharing, caring, goodness and love. Google the latest psyche research into altruism. Finally Georg Cantor's set theoretical analysis of infinity and physicist Max Tegmarks recent sound theoretical basis for infinite universes opens a whole new realm of possibility. I won't go into detail but if there are infinite universes there are infinite sentient races that have transgressed time frames and insights far beyond our myopic primitive epoch. Infinite universes infinite sentient beings that will eventual intuit Absolute Infinity which, at the highest level of human potentiation, would resolve into Absolute Love. Lot more technical detail to this but this will have to do. goodness is innate and evolutionary the time frames available gives sentient being plenty of time to work towards goodness, happiness, joy love and intuition of Absolute Love. If you can learn to forgive absolutely the cruelest and vilest person you will get a glimpse of what I am suggesting. In Love all negative attributions, sin, hell, purgatory, damnation, karma, judgement, blame and retribution cease. What then? Explore infinity and Absolute Infinity and your mind will never get stuck in thees endless polemic debates bout teleology, deontology, meaning and intentionality. if you realize there are always vastly greater domains of insight and potentiality you will be able to discriminate between relative worldly functioning and the immediate ocean of non-dual Absolute Infinty imbued with Infinite Potentiality. Yeah! I might be crazy but its better than being dead psychologically neutered by convention and dead before your gone.

Answer 4

Could it be possibly that you're just over complicating things and they are indeed the self-same idea?