Philosophy

Philosophy

Introduction

Ethics is one of the oldest sciences, the objective of which takes account of moral values and goodness. It analyzes the position of morals in other societal dealings, examines its character and inner arrangement, discovers its sources and chronological growth, and hypothetically validates its schemes. From the time of 300 BC when the ethics was initially chosen as a particular sphere of study till the present date, the attention in understanding does not get settled. Such theorists as Aristotle and Kant dealt with ethical concerns at different times. Their viewpoints on ethics were dissimilar and so are of particular concentration for the study.

Discussion

Compare and Contrast

The basic idea of Aristotle in opposition to the contemporary concepts of Immanuel Kant posed a great match for the most interesting viewpoint of the individual good quality. Ethical merits, in accord with Aristotle, are manifestation of individuality of active belief in a person. The character has a multifaceted makeup, comprised of coherent and unreasonable elements (Broadie, 1993). Ethical intrinsic worth occurs at the interfaces of these elements and makes a part of their connection and dealings. Moral qualities reveal the real individual character, the correct function of the spirit, when its rational and emotional areas are linked together so that the first controls, whereas the second pursues its directions just as a son follows his father. They trace rationally participative character of the human spirit in its ideal manifestation.

Aristotle in his ethical premise considers that if the properties of the corpse (for example stature) and the excellence of the mindset (for example reminiscence) are given to a person, so the moral qualities are intravital units and are shaped in the procedure of alert individually-responsible behavior. They are linked with a dynamic need of man to the maximum good, which Aristotle describes happiness. Ethical (honest) qualities articulate a person's capability to create correct option in different life state of affairs and result of which depend critically on his preference. In accord with Aristotle, on how a human being take steps, depends what formation of soul he has (Hughes, 2001).

Whereas, Kant's ethical approach is contradictory with peripatetism. It stresses not on how people should act in certain states, not to recognize the rationality of private self-centeredness, or particular qualities, and the dedications that are conserved under all situation and for all conscious beings. He is concerned not in the utmost good and moral qualities, but in ethical regulation and responsibility. Not the performance of a particular person in a particular state, not the responsibility to this particular man, but the obligation of mankind (humankind), personified in the ethical law and apparent with the way, - that is a main theme of ethics in accord to Kant. The man has an ethical merit not by himself, but in its experiential subsistence of the element, but merely in union with and in the framework of the general ethical regulation.

Two cases from the writings of Kant evidently exemplify his stance, as they were imagined by him as an ...