Moral Philosophy Of Aristotle And Emmanuel Kant

Cristian Galarza

Ethics Position Paper

David N. Scott

May 7, 2014

Ethics can be set apart as the subject to have many different categories, some of them could be good and evil, up or down, high and low. Ethics tells us what is the better option not just for ourselves nor generation, but for the human race as a whole. We are to make good representative of all and not just to yourself, do good so that good can be spread out throughout the whole universe and make it a universal law. In other words set the ground rules to acting morally enough to make your life a life worth living, with goodness in what we do and create. What I would consider a good foundation or knowledge of ethics could be explained with the moral philosophy of Aristotle and Emmanuel Kant, what I will cover here won’t be considered to be everything nor something, I will shimmer the subject on how these two stand in their own philosophy.

To start of the Greek Aristotle born in Stagira, who was first intended to study medicine, until was sent to Athens to study philosophy with Plato. He was a major contributor to science and philosophy. He saw ultimate reality in physical objects, that where able to learn and grow through their experience. To him living creatures, the form was only identified with the soul, animals had high enough souls, which could feel, plants had low souls, and humans had rational and reasoning souls. His main question was that the main sovereign good (highest) of one man and that the supreme good is happiness. It meant to live in a blissful and beautiful manner. And to obtain this we must perfect human nature, understand the word itself, not in the empirical sense of it, but the metaphysical sense. Each single one of us consist of in...

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...nother reason being would be that Emmanuel Kant told us, moral worth does not depend on the activity of the action, but the true value is located in the principle in which the action is carried out on. Last but never least, Kant believed that a good will is the only object that is really good in itself and which in this case is not a product of anything else. (Good will is the ability to complete actions for sole purpose and duty). All in all there is a great deal more of information that I can ransom about. How Kant is the better philosopher or how Aristotle could have improved, but let’s be honest no one wants to spend hours on end reading this, let’s take a break, let’s relax and your next semester in college take yourselves some philosophy and ethics classes. So that in the future you don’t have to refer to me as your instructor.

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