Some believe that voting a certain way this election is right/wrong. Let’s look at some ethics and see why.
First thing’s first, a shout-out to my friend Kevin Greenlee (who’s got legit degrees in philosophy and 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, and /u/Althuraya on /r/askphilosophy for their help with this week’s episode.