Locul şi rolul deontologiei în societatea postmodernă
The Position and Role of Deontology in Postmodern Society

Summary/Abstract: The article touches upon problems related to deontology’s role and its location in the postmodern society which, on one hand, presents a sum of behavioral rules for a particular social group that ensures the moral character of determined interactions or of those associated with the professional activity, and on the other, a scientific discipline which investigates the specifics of moral demonstrations in various areas of activities. The deontology applies, in particular, to those social groups for which the society presents the highest moral requirements. Nowadays, the designing of applied moral norms, including deontological, is a strategic process for further development of contemporary ethics, intended to overcome the difficulties in their development within the previous traditional ethics. The author specifies the existence of Deontological Codes for certain professions demonstrating a developing character of the social progress, as well as a continued humanization of social existence. At the same time, the author emphasizes that despite the positive features of the Deontological Codes, these also have a series of shortcomings, such as the replacement of the autonomous moral responsibilities with heteronomy ethics. Concomitantly, the article underlines the need to avoid an overly generic approach while designing such Codes, as this might lead to uniformization of moral individualities, having an adverse impact on the human personality. Another shortcoming is the fact that the Codes start from the idea that a human is incapable and that when he/she has freedom he/she should comply voluntarily with proper rules, and, in this context, the human should be assisted by developing and approving relevant legal acts that would enforce him/her to comply with. In such situation the ethics merges with the law, both being coercible, but they should not be confused as they have different scopes. The morality cannot be universalized as it is in the case of law, which means that the morality doesn’t strictly belong to rationality, as this issue abolishes the moral uniformization. Furthermore, the analysis of the existing Deontological Codes proves us the lack of the delimitation of the area of deontology research as a science or of the false determination of such that presents it as eclectic in nature. This happens due to fact that the professional groups that are being preoccupied with the Codes perceive the need for integrating the morality while designing the legal acts mostly through an intuitive moral platform rather than through a moral basis which is well studied and explained by the science of ethics. Therefore, without a true theoretical tool, the attention is focused, first of all, on the accuracy of professional acts which is seen through the point of view of general human rights, through how these rights have been imposed publicly, while the moral requirements being mostly intuited rather than clearly formulated.

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