Moral reasoning is personally an individuals choice, in ethics understanding is based on your own choice. Both Aristotle and Kant introduce different approaches with different concepts on ethical theories on how to live your life and what choices to follow. Aristotle introduces us to the idea of moral excellence and the pursuit of happiness. Aristotle focuses on the virtuous person, according to him, we learn moral virtue through habit and practice rather than through reasoning and instruction, to obtain a good life. On the other hand Kant has a different point of view he focuses his concept on moral thinking and that being apart of a persons universal duty and moral law. Focusing his points on “Categorical Imperative” the obligation to do …show more content…
But to do so requires that our sense of reason and our personal understanding of moral virtues is properly exercise,to obtain the ability to function properly in our thoughts of mind and our actions. Aristotle believes that men is a rational animal, we are usually taught and learn the moral virtue, which becomes habit or just rules we follow because thats what we are taught is good. We have to learn to make decisions that are right and and not just good for ourselves. Not for our own personal benefit, but because we understand that something is right and we know we wont get something in return for doing good. Character is very important to Aristotle because if you have a good character you will end up doing the right thing we have to make our own characters with our own intensions not just because someone told you to do good and you're just following that rule. To Aristotle we are all political animals, doing the right thing just to be good citizens. Aristotle states that we must act knowingly and do the right thing because it is right, not because there is a personal stake in terms of the future possibility of pleasure or …show more content…
Moral reason also plays an important roll, a moral action should be determined by the reason behind the action and definitely not by any consequences that should follow. Your reason should be the same for everyone and everything making it a universal law. Kant believes humans have no inclination, but never less perform them because they are driven to it through another inclination. The example he gives us is conformity with duty that a merchant should not over charge his inexperienced customers but rather hold a from general price for everyone. Basically not giving anyone an advantage over anyone else. Actions such not be done from self aim, to preserve ones right is a duty and everyone is incline to do so. Kant uses “categorical imperative” that means we should all act in such a way that we could will the maxim according to our actions of universal law. Also using “hypothetical impairment” which is a commandment of reason that applies when having a condition. According to Kant there are no “ifs” in moral actions, we must act in such way that we are not doing the right thing for something in return but doing the right thing because we believe it is the right