Similarities Between Kant And Aristotle

Even though Aristotle was not a direct student under Plato at The Academy, he became and developed into one of the most famous Greek philosophers. After his years spent at The Academy, Aristotle developed his moral of philosophy in his book the Nicomachean Ethics. In this book, Aristotle explains the origin, nature, and development of virtues, which are essential for achieving the best and highest good that human beings are capable of, which is happiness. According to Aristotle, happiness is defined as to live well and do well, where virtue is key, but alone it is not enough. In order to be happy, you need full virtue across a complete life, which means that you need to regularly perform all the virtues. Happiness is a sort of activity and as stated above, happiness is to live well and do well, which makes it an activity of the soul (Natali).
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The following points of similarities are constructed upon their scientific and philosophical theories. For instance, Aristotle’s virtue of justice has a close similarity to Kant’s perfect duties to self and others and Aristotle’s virtues that he lists has a rough correspondence in line with Kant’s imperfect duties to self and others. Therefore, the recommended way of living life of Aristotle and Kant, is fairly similar. Furthermore, Aristotle and Kant argued the point that emotions are subjective and cannot be useful in making moral claims, which lead them both to conclude that reason and logic are the way to understand the moral world. In most cases, Aristotle and Kant viewed the morality of an individual is determined by the action and not the consequences of the action. Lastly, Aristotle and Kant recognized that there are actions which are inherently evil, and these should never be