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Christmas Philosophy 101

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Are You Choosing Your Behavior Based on Your Duty?

If santa were a benthamite consequentialist, that would have countered against you in his big book. What ethical theories better include our intent os, what we were trying to do? Emmanuel kant was a german philosopher in the late eighteenth, early nineteenth centuries. He claimed that if someone wanted to kill your friend and came to your house to ask if your friend was there, morally you had to say yes. And he said that you must always try and follow your duty.

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