Professional ethics or professional deontology (from the Greek δέον 'due' + λόγος 'treaty', a term introduced by Jeremy Bentham in his Deontology or the Science of Morality"), Deontology or science of morality, 1834) is the branch of applied ethics whose purpose is to establish the duties of those who exercise a profession.
Ethics or deontology does not impose legal or regulatory sanctions. However, professional ethics can be, in a certain way, in the legal codes that regulate a professional activity. Deontology is also part of what is known as normative ethics and presents a series of principles and rules of mandatory compliance.
There is a subdiscipline of professional ethics for each profession that requires it. Some prominent examples are medical ethics, business ethics, engineering ethics, legal ethics, and journalism ethics.
Meaning and object
In general, it is included in written form in the so-called deontological codes, common in spheres such as law, medicine or journalism, but which should be extended to any other discipline[1] in which human beings or living beings are dealt with.
Deontology is also known as "theory of duty" and, along with axiology, is one of the two main branches of normative ethics. A code of ethics is a set of criteria, supported by ethics with norms and values, formulated and assumed by those who carry out a professional activity.
Deontology deals with the space of man's freedom only subject to the responsibility imposed by his conscience. Likewise, Jeremy Bentham considers that the basis of deontology must be based on the philosophical principles of freedom and utilitarianism, which means that the good or bad acts of men are only explained in terms of the happiness or well-being that these very humanistic matters can provide. For Bentham, deontology is understood from its ends (the greatest possible well-being for the majority, and in the best possible way).
The humanist arguments of freedom and utilitarianism were appropriated in deontology, with the ethical-rational demands that influenced Colombian constitutionalism in some way (as he was a friend of Francisco de Paula Santander y Miranda). Bentham agrees with Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his idea that, until his time, moral and political systems are founded on the historical irrational and must be replaced by a natural, that is, rational, morality and political order; which was welcomed by the nascent American republics.
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Introduction
Professional ethics or professional deontology (from the Greek δέον 'due' + λόγος 'treaty', a term introduced by Jeremy Bentham in his Deontology or the Science of Morality"), Deontology or science of morality, 1834) is the branch of applied ethics whose purpose is to establish the duties of those who exercise a profession.
Ethics or deontology does not impose legal or regulatory sanctions. However, professional ethics can be, in a certain way, in the legal codes that regulate a professional activity. Deontology is also part of what is known as normative ethics and presents a series of principles and rules of mandatory compliance.
There is a subdiscipline of professional ethics for each profession that requires it. Some prominent examples are medical ethics, business ethics, engineering ethics, legal ethics, and journalism ethics.
Meaning and object
In general, it is included in written form in the so-called deontological codes, common in spheres such as law, medicine or journalism, but which should be extended to any other discipline[1] in which human beings or living beings are dealt with.
Deontology is also known as "theory of duty" and, along with axiology, is one of the two main branches of normative ethics. A code of ethics is a set of criteria, supported by ethics with norms and values, formulated and assumed by those who carry out a professional activity.
Deontology deals with the space of man's freedom only subject to the responsibility imposed by his conscience. Likewise, Jeremy Bentham considers that the basis of deontology must be based on the philosophical principles of freedom and utilitarianism, which means that the good or bad acts of men are only explained in terms of the happiness or well-being that these very humanistic matters can provide. For Bentham, deontology is understood from its ends (the greatest possible well-being for the majority, and in the best possible way).
The humanist arguments of freedom and utilitarianism were appropriated in deontology, with the ethical-rational demands that influenced Colombian constitutionalism in some way (as he was a friend of Francisco de Paula Santander y Miranda). Bentham agrees with Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his idea that, until his time, moral and political systems are founded on the historical irrational and must be replaced by a natural, that is, rational, morality and political order; which was welcomed by the nascent American republics.
The first deontological codes were applied after the Second World War after seeing the atrocities that health professionals (mainly doctors) applied to people justifying themselves in the exercise of research, but who also did not have any type of regulation or control, this is how during the Cold War deontology began to be studied and applied in Europe.
As has already been observed, Latin America has not been immune to the appropriation of deontology, since many deontological and ethical codes have been implemented, mainly in the area of health. There are even laws supported by deontology, such as the Deontological and Bioethical Code of the Colombian Psychologist"), Law 1090 of 2006, in which Nelson Ricardo Vergara C"), research psychologist and manager of this code and law (Psychology today 2005 and Colpsic), clearly shows the liberal humanist and Benthamist utilitarian philosophical base, very appropriate for modern psychology and which is no less Note also in the Colombian constitution of 1991. This is a clear example of the strength and solidity of the deontological concept applied and expressed in the most modern democratic laws.
One can also speak of "applied deontology"), in which case one is no longer faced with normative ethics but rather descriptive and even prescriptive. Deontology applied to the study of rights and duties, particularly focused on the exercise of a profession, is the case of professional deontology. For its application, deontological codes are developed, which regulate, in a strict manner or as a guide, issues related to the "duty" of the members of a certain profession. Deontology is nourished by on the one hand the legal framework, and on the other the moral framework.
Its basic concept is that acting "ethically" corresponds to acting according to a predefined code. A departure from a previously defined norm, generally in writing, constitutes an unethical attitude or behavior. Therefore, we speak of the supreme argument that must guide any behavior.
References
[1] ↑ Se debate si los políticos deberían aplicarsi un código de ética o si es una profesión totalmente discrecional, sujeto al cumplimiento de la ley: v. (en italiano) Elementi di deontologia politica, in Nuovi studi politici, aprile-settembre 2000, pp. 3 ss..: https://www.academia.edu/2064759/Elementi_di_deontologia_politica
The first deontological codes were applied after the Second World War after seeing the atrocities that health professionals (mainly doctors) applied to people justifying themselves in the exercise of research, but who also did not have any type of regulation or control, this is how during the Cold War deontology began to be studied and applied in Europe.
As has already been observed, Latin America has not been immune to the appropriation of deontology, since many deontological and ethical codes have been implemented, mainly in the area of health. There are even laws supported by deontology, such as the Deontological and Bioethical Code of the Colombian Psychologist"), Law 1090 of 2006, in which Nelson Ricardo Vergara C"), research psychologist and manager of this code and law (Psychology today 2005 and Colpsic), clearly shows the liberal humanist and Benthamist utilitarian philosophical base, very appropriate for modern psychology and which is no less Note also in the Colombian constitution of 1991. This is a clear example of the strength and solidity of the deontological concept applied and expressed in the most modern democratic laws.
One can also speak of "applied deontology"), in which case one is no longer faced with normative ethics but rather descriptive and even prescriptive. Deontology applied to the study of rights and duties, particularly focused on the exercise of a profession, is the case of professional deontology. For its application, deontological codes are developed, which regulate, in a strict manner or as a guide, issues related to the "duty" of the members of a certain profession. Deontology is nourished by on the one hand the legal framework, and on the other the moral framework.
Its basic concept is that acting "ethically" corresponds to acting according to a predefined code. A departure from a previously defined norm, generally in writing, constitutes an unethical attitude or behavior. Therefore, we speak of the supreme argument that must guide any behavior.
References
[1] ↑ Se debate si los políticos deberían aplicarsi un código de ética o si es una profesión totalmente discrecional, sujeto al cumplimiento de la ley: v. (en italiano) Elementi di deontologia politica, in Nuovi studi politici, aprile-settembre 2000, pp. 3 ss..: https://www.academia.edu/2064759/Elementi_di_deontologia_politica