Comparing Aristotle & Kant 1. Aristotle and Kant, in the Nicomachean Ethics and Lectures on Ethics, both have different views on the positive and negative forms of self-love. This difference is clearly distinguished from the start. Aristotle uses the word self-love, also known as philautia, in a positive form, while Kant uses it in a negative form. Each philosopher also made their separate case ... that self-love plays an essential role in friendship. To begin with, Aristotle used the ... things like his pleasures, emotional triumphs and losses and even their pains. For both philosophers the ...

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... , in some cases, be unintentional or self-serving in some way. However, acting "for the sake of the law,"" requires a conscious decision to follow the law out of reverence for the law as a principle. Aristotle also deals with this issue in a similar way in his Nicomachean Ethics. In his investigation of justice, Aristotle argues that intention is crucial for an action that is in to be considered virtuous ... . This eliminates the possibility for an act that is "in conformity with the law" performed accidentally to be a moral ... ...

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