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Aristotle and Kant
Webster’s Dictionary defines the word moral as, “...of or relating to the principles of right or wrong; conforming to a standard of right behavior...” But who is to decide what is right and wrong, who is moral and who is unethical. This has been a heated debate topic since the beginning ....
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.... potential to be reasonful, law abiding and moral on an equal level for everyone. Another idea of Kant’s was that morality is not based on consequence or feeling, but on reasoning alone. He believed that emotions are far to unstable to be the base of anything. If we were to let our lives be affected by fear and inclination, (both emotions), then we allow ourselves to be governed by the world among us, and therefore not by ourselves. Autonomy, self-government, happens only when we are under the rule of reason. If we allow the world to make our decisions for us then we are not using reason ....
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