Abstrakt
The exploration of "what is right and wrong in moral decision-making" remains a contentious and ethnically charged topic in contemporary discourse. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of morality by examining the philosophies of Aristotle and Kant and their relevance to contemporary moral challenges.
This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of morality by examining the philosophies of Aristotle's and Kant's work on the individuality of self, their place in the history of moral philosophy, and morality, and will then suggest where Aristotle's and Kant's insights can help us today for addressing contemporary moral challenges.
Each of these philosophers is a giant in the history of Western philosophy, and questions about ethics and morality are central to their philosophy. They each maintain different models of what they consider ethical and moral grounds, and each offer different and sometimes overlapping views of what it means to have moral standards, and virtue, and to live a good human life.
Aristotle believed achieving excellence in what our souls are meant to do is how humans achieve virtue, morality, and happiness. Kant considered innate equality to mean that we are all independent of being put under the legal obligations of others. Kant struggles to imagine how this might be realised. Kant's conception required some kind of central authority to conduct some planning; spontaneous order is a voluntary means by which people put themselves under the authority of others.
This paper will employ a comparative approach to analyse Aristotle's and Kant's philosophies of morality. Finally, the paper will explore the contemporary relevance of their ideas, focusing on specific moral challenges and demonstrating how Aristotle's and Kant's philosophies can guide ethical decision-making in the modern world.