“Virtue” is an idea we all strive for but often struggle to define. Throughout Philosophy many have come to define virtue in different ways with arguably the two most famous being Aristotle and Kant. While the two initially seem to be conflicting with each other there also many ways in which the philosophies align with each other and this is something the paper will explore. To gain better insight to the philosopher’s arguments in regards to birtue and moral worth, we will explain both their views and discuss a scene in which we identify how the similarities in assessing the agent as well as what leads to Aristotle’s argument being more compelling in doing such.
Kant’s value of moral worth concerns itself with the importance of acting out of duty even in the presence, or lack thereof, any internal desire to execute said action. What follows is that Kant often does not disagree with Aristotle in identifying actions that are morally right. However, he believes an actions moral worth, is praiseworthy only if the action was done out of duty as opposed to any natural inclination or wanting to do the duty based on passion or emotion. The morale worth of the action is when the
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Harry’s action are deemed as such because we see his natural inclination to help and do good not solely in the aforementioned dialogue but in his character throughout the Harry Potter Saga. We see how in this specific scene Harry has little to no hesitation in choosing to save the girl and explains to the mermen he doesn’t want them to die. This would lead Aristotle to believe he was acting not solely out of duty, but simply because he wanted too. Furthermore, throughout the series we see Harry choose to do what is right with very little hesitation. This is in a way has continually formed a habit in Harry to do what is right without having to act from duty and thereby act