The textbook’s (Ethics for the Information Age, by Michael Quinn) discussions of the different ethical theories is really through, but rather dry and in the middle of reading my textbook the other day I started searching youtube. I found a video that explains Kantianism in 3 minutes using lots of humour. Humour is a really great way to learn and internalize concepts. And yeah I pronoucned Kant’s name “Can’t” in my head before watching this video (and attending lecture). There is also one on John Locke and Thomas Hobbes (Social Contract Theory). Much gratitude to the creator of these videos! Let’s press that “Like” button extra hard.
If were to take the last example the video gave about an axe murder appearing at your door and asking you the location of your innocent children so that he could hack them all to tiny pieces and apply the other workable ethic theories from the textbook, would you be morally obligated to reveal the location?