Deontology, Group 1 – Period 56

Final Inform Unit I

Auquilla Vicuña Juan Fernando

Pañi Zhagui Jonathan Vladimir
Zhingri Torres Luis Zhingri

Salesian Polytechnic University

Electronic Engineering Carrier
Cuenca, 18 de Abril del 2020
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In this report we will provide some definitions of professional ethics and deontology where we see

that there are some types and explaining their characteristics. The importance of the study of

deontology will also be presented

The difference between professional ethics, deontology and morality will be explained, as there is

sometimes confusion. As is the case with axiology, where it has a relationship with deontology.
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Table of Contents

UNIT I ............................................................................................................................................. 1
Professional Deontology ............................................................................................................. 1
Types and characteristics ......................................................................................................... 1
Importance of the study of Deontology ....................................................................................... 2
Axiology and its relation with Deontology ................................................................................. 4
List of References ............................................................................................................................ 5
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UNIT I

Professional Deontology

Professional deontology as a rule dictating the conduct of professionals. It is unique and

specific.

It is a system of self-regulation that is provided by a professional corporation that, by order

of the society, has its own recognized attributions in a determined field, with the purpose

of guaranteeing that it exercises them with a sense of responsibility and focusing them

towards the defense of the general interest.

Types and characteristics

1. Medical Deontology: Medical conduct in relation to society, the sick, medical

colleagues and assistants and in respect of scientific experimentation, consultations,

medical boards, eugenics.

2. Professional Ethics: Economic, social and labour aspects of the members of the

medical profession.

3. University Ethics: Rights and obligations of teachers and undergraduate and

graduate students, the rules to be followed in professional work, schools, halls,

chairs.

4. Legal Deontology: Issues of professional morality that have correlation in the laws

of the country.

5. Informative Deontology: Set of professional standards The minimum and

clairvoyant rules that regulate the professional conscience of the informant based
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on truthfulness and professional responsibility with a certain utopian sense of

aspiring to the desirable as best.

6. Accounting Deontology: seeks to develop the capacity to understand the nature of

the Accounting Deontology and allows the student to value the human behavior of

the Public Accountant professional in its Ethical-Moral and Legal aspects.

Importance of the study of Deontology

Deontology is a subsidiary discipline of ethics that focuses on the moral obligations that

people have determined as a pattern of evaluation of their usefulness. Thus, from this

perspective, what is correct and should be put into practice coincide with what benefits the

greatest number of people. The importance of this approach in what respects morality is its

association with different professional activities, meaning with this that it is very common

to appeal to these principles for the development of an ethic in what respects different work

performance.

The deontology is important because we cannot live without morality, that is, without a

moral rule to which our actions are submitted. It is the basis of our relationship with God

and the way in which our relations between men.

Deontology is of great interest to the professional world, and in particular to professions

that share a high level of social responsibility (administrators, doctors, lawyers, ,

accountants) teachers, therapists, psychologists), the deontology has meant a field of

development of various action protocols in regard to professional activities that have

problems that involve an ethical evaluation that must be succinct in a particular context..
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Deontology seeks a balance between a certain moral style (what we used to call ethos or

moral character) and a high level of technical-scientific professionalism. This double

dimension has to be treated with harmony and balance for a greater dignity of the

profession

Deontology is important because it contributes to humanize the profession, because

through its principles it provides a series of technical rules, it refers to the set of principles

and ethical rules that regulate and guide a professional activity.

Professional ethics, deontology and morality

This unit will focus on the difference between professional ethics, deontology and morality.

When we talk about ethics and morality, it is common to confuse them or to ignore that

they exist differences between them, making the mistake of taking both concepts to mean

the same thing. However, ethics and morality are two different ideas whose meanings can

go hand in hand.

Within professional life, there is another concept that is based on ethics and morality:

deontology. In this essay, the meaning of each term will be explained in order to show in a

clear and concise way the difference between each of them.

A. Ethics is a set of moral rules that govern a person's conduct in any area of life.

B. Morality is a code, it is only a personal reflection, it involves society in general.

Morality obliges every citizen to conform to the rules of equity, which is the basis

of all social virtues, and to abstain from all crimes or vices. Something is said to be

unethical when it does not conform to the morality of that society.

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C. Deontology is based on the first two terms explained, ethics and morality, so that

the human being within his work or profession knows how to make the right

decisions and act with rectitude. The knowledge of what is just and convenient.

For example, in the case of an Electronic Engineer, he must have a behavior that serves as

a guide to others, straight in his private, family, social, public and professional conduct,

and firmness in his principles so that he is unbribable before the temptations and proposals

of the modern environment, which seek to demolish his decorum, his dignity, his honesty

and the integrity of his conduct that finally projects itself and serves as an example in his

ways of being, thinking, acting and feeling, that radiates personal and professional security

and that instills respect, consideration and appreciation for his goals and achievements.

Axiology and its relation with Deontology

The axiology is in charge of studying the values, this axiology is the professional

performance, generating the business sense of capitalism, we have a moral judgment, in

finding positive aspects as the negative ones; in the positive aspects we can highlight the

values of productivity, overcoming and creativity.

The deontology is in charge of establishing the norms and values within a daily life. It is

also to establish the moral obligations and duties that give regime to an ethical life. Ethics

also teaches us to live a healthy life, not to be corrupt from a private person to a professional

person. The above mentioned, the consequence of the inversion of values, produces

disinterest in social relations.

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List of References

Benavides, B. (2009). Contexto social de la profesión. México, D.F.: Patria.

Berumen, N. et Al (2005) Deontología del ejercicio profesional. México, D.F.:Patria.

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