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To: Robin Plunder who wrote (96072)10/30/2012 12:17:38 AM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 219172
 
But you did not answer my question....what happened to those who would have liked to teach Aristotle?
Aristotle is as generally disliked by the academic Intelligentsia in favor of Immanuel Kant.

While many people argue and have argued that the two accounts of virtue are totally incompatible. Virtuous action for Aristotle is an a posteriori choice that takes place after deliberation. The virtuous follow the intermediary state between two bad states--excess and deficiency. Kant on the other hand thinks that virtuous action is based on an a priori idea of moral perfection. According to Kant, all individuals have an intrinsic worth (dignity), and everyone has a right to this dignity, thus, everyone also has an obligation to the rights of others. For Kant the will is free, but we are morally obligated to this law by duty.

The question is, are these two ideas (rough sketches anyway) conceptually different, or are they different through term definitions and language? The way I see it, Kant's agent that ought to do certain things is the same agent that Aristotle says follows the doctrine of the mean. I see Kant's a priori principles a necessary component of the Aristotle's virtous individual.

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