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deontology
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By contrast, Cardinal John O'Connor succinctly formulated the deontological stance of the Catholic Church as follows: "Is cloning human beings morally permissible?
The first is deontological and is grounded in the principle of egalitarianism or equal opportunity (Monroe, 1972; President's Commission on Higher Education, 1947b).
It has acquired its present-day connotations largely since the time of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) as a result of the philosophical traditions, of deontological and utilitarian ethics respectively, that they brilliantly pioneered.
 
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