Question

Identify and explain the most obvious example of an approach that uses an act-oriented approach to morality. How accurate is that approach for explaining and evaluating human behavior?

Answer 1

Deontological ethics are act oriented approaches to morality.

These ethical theories can be taken as a scale to evaluate human behavior, and to assess the predictive forces that motivate behavior within humans, but it cannot be held as the barometer of measuring and evaluating human behavior due to the sundry contradictory forces of their explanation.

For example, an instance of an act oriented approach would be the categorical imperative, wherein Kant said that the act of an individual is only ethical and moral is it is right instead of good.