Comparing Aristotle And Kant's Ethics Of Care

In the multiple theories of philosophy, if we take the time to look at four major views of philosophy, such as Aristotle with his nature of virtue theory, Mill with his Utilitarianism theory, Kant with Categorical Imperative theory, and Held with her theory Ethics of Care. All of these theories are similar by addressing the need for us to be good and apply it the proper way, but they are also different by taking different approaches and different view points on what is good and how to apply it properly to daily life. The Ethics of Care is very similar to all the concepts presented by Aristotle, Mill or Kant, but it is different in various ways. The main approach of Ethics of Care concentrates on caring for an individual and the concept also emphasize maintaining the relationship with the individual you are caring for.

Aristotle states that in Nature of Virtue if an individual does good things than he will acquire an habit of being an good person, it is similar to Helds theory. It has comparison by showing care towards an person will be the right thing to do and would create habits so we …show more content…
It is similar to ethics of care, because in caring for an individual, we should judge our actions upon the motivation of the action. For example, if an individual was taking care of his wealthy grandpa, because he would inherit the money when the grandpa dies, it would be an bad motivation, and immoral for this person to only take care of the grandpa for his money. Kant's concepts are a little different, because caring for an individual we should also show value in the consequences of the care as well. If an individual was being an caregiver and was not thinking of the consequences of taking care of an murder, that could end bad for the caregiver because if the killer decided to kill the