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Recall the Thought Experiment About Anne Frank

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Recall the thought experiment about Anne Frank. Imagine that in 1944 you own the house where the young Anne Frank and her family are hiding from the Nazis, and the Nazis ask you if anyone lives there. You can lie and save Anne and her family from death in a concentration camp, or you can tell the truth and doom them. What would Kant have you do in this situation? Is he right? What would you do? Why?


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Instinctual Behavior

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The phenomenon where an animal's learned behavior reverts to its innate behaviors, overriding conditioned responses.

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