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With a comparison of Kantian and Utiliarian ethical approaches, Hinman, in his text “Ethics, a Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory�, demonstrates the contemporary relevance of Aristotle’s ethics to today’s society through interpretation of real life events.
In the case of the Village of Le Chambon during the summer of 1942, villagers were warned by the Nazi regime that if they were to hide Jews, they would be punished brutally for getting in the way of the task to eradicate the Jewish population.

The villagers, in defiance of the Nazi ruling, hid many Jewish people resulting in thousands of lives being saved. When Hinman looks at the villagers of Le Chambon, he is “struck not only by what they did, but also by who they were… we are struck by what good people they were�(pg 269). The goodness that came from these people, although defying the laws set upon them by their government, was not stemmed from any calculation of consequences in the fashion of Kantian and......

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