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104. Ethics Overview & Moral Voting | THUNK

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Some believe that voting a certain way this election is right/wrong. Let's look at some ethics & see why.

-Links for the Curious- 

First thing's first, a shout-out to my friend Kevin Greenlee (who's got legit degrees in philosophy & doctrinal theology). His fascinating article on Christian morality in this election is what kicked this whole thing off - http://ethawyn.blogspot.com/2016/11/hold-your-nose-and-vote-on-wickedness.html

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's brilliant summary of deontology - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/

On consequentialism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/

On virtue ethics - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/

A summary of Bentham's utilitarianism - http://www.reed.edu/humanities/hum220/syllabus/2010-11/Bentham-Principles.pdf

A summary of Kant's CI from MIT - http://www.mit.edu/~rdoody/Morality%20Ethics%20Handouts/KantEthicsPHIL13.pdf

GEM Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy," which kicked off the modern revival of virtue ethics - http://www.pitt.edu/~mthompso/readings/mmp.pdf

Again, many thanks to Liz, Kevin, Elena, & /u/Althuraya on /r/askphilosophy for their help with this week's episode.

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