... turn infringing on societies overall utility. (Velasquez) Immanuel Kant, using a nonconsequentialist approach, created the ethical theory of deontology, in which "moral principles do not rest on contingencies, and that we define actions as inherently right and wrong basis of obligation must not be sought in human nature, rather it is a priori, meaning moral reasoning is not based on factual information and ... ...

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