Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
In the reading Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle, a well-known philosopher, wrote about what it is to be a good person and how being a good person, reflects our happiness. Along with writing by Aristotle, there was another writing by Immanuel Kant, called The Foundations of the Metaphysics of morals, that’s rights about the fundamentals of the moral duty. These two philosophers were very good and can very well go well with each other. Aristotle and Immanuel Kant can agree that, to be a moral person, you must do things for the good, and if you do things for the good, you're a moral person.
Aristotle talks about virtue and what it is to have a good character traits. Morality requires someone with good characteristic traits and if they do, creates …show more content…
No matter how old we are, or who we are, or what we know and have learned, we are who we are and me make choices based on who we are and what we feel. It is a part of what it means to be a human. We may make choice for others, we also may make choices solemnly for our self and our fulfillment. We can make the choice to help an elderly because we know it’s the good thing to do, that is because it is the moral thing to do. If we also help the same elderly person knowing we will get something out of it, it is no longer the moral thing to do, but instead, the opposite because we no longer are doing it to be good. According to Kant, something is only morally good if you're doing it because you know it is good. You are not doing it for a reward, nor gratitude, but because it was the morally right thing to …show more content…
He says in his writing “be the highest good and the condition of all the rest, even of the desire for happiness”. (Immanuel Kant,9) Although happiness is what we all want, it is more important do always do the good for the good and not for the benefits of what is the outcome. Aristotle believes we do good for the happiness but Kant believes we need to just do the good for the good and if it makes us happy, good. Although they may seem a little different, with Kant more worried about the good and Aristotle worried about the happiness that comes from the good they are both needed to be
Aristotle talks about virtue and what it is to have a good character traits. Morality requires someone with good characteristic traits and if they do, creates …show more content…
No matter how old we are, or who we are, or what we know and have learned, we are who we are and me make choices based on who we are and what we feel. It is a part of what it means to be a human. We may make choice for others, we also may make choices solemnly for our self and our fulfillment. We can make the choice to help an elderly because we know it’s the good thing to do, that is because it is the moral thing to do. If we also help the same elderly person knowing we will get something out of it, it is no longer the moral thing to do, but instead, the opposite because we no longer are doing it to be good. According to Kant, something is only morally good if you're doing it because you know it is good. You are not doing it for a reward, nor gratitude, but because it was the morally right thing to …show more content…
He says in his writing “be the highest good and the condition of all the rest, even of the desire for happiness”. (Immanuel Kant,9) Although happiness is what we all want, it is more important do always do the good for the good and not for the benefits of what is the outcome. Aristotle believes we do good for the happiness but Kant believes we need to just do the good for the good and if it makes us happy, good. Although they may seem a little different, with Kant more worried about the good and Aristotle worried about the happiness that comes from the good they are both needed to be