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The classic theories of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill have influenced Christian thought in morality and ethics for centuries. But they can go only so far, writes ethicist Wyndy Corbin Reuschling in Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality. In this readable book she introduces and overviews the three classic philosophical schools of ethics: virtue,...

In this chapter, I provide descriptions of three classic theories in ethics: deontology, teleology, and virtue ethics. In short, deontology is the study of duty or obligation, where the weight of moral focus is on the rule or prescription that enables a person to answer the question “What ought I to do?” The answer is, “I ought to obey the rules or prescriptions that tell me what I ought to do.”
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