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Deontology has many strengths but it is justifiable to reject it. Clarify and assess this claim. Derived from the Greek 'deon' meaning "duty" or obligation", deontology refers to a general category of ethical or moral theories, and literally means "the study of duty or obligation". Deontological ethics, (sometimes described as "duty" or "obligation" -based ethics), therefore focus on the concept of duty with its correlative notions of rights and permission. Deontology posits the existence of a priori moral obligations, suggesting that people ought to live by a set of permanently defined principles that are not subject to change, and are concerned with the intrinsic rightness or wrongness of actions in themselves, as opposed to that of the consequences they produce. In this way, deontology is in direct opposition to consequentialist theories. There are many kinds of deontological theories. All of them have their own respective strengths; however there are some...

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