Essay - Ethical Behavior According to Mill, Kant, and Aristotle Morality is...

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Morality is a difficult concept to pin down, appearing ***** us as a concrete term which is underscored by certain rational assumptions about the universe. However, it is also true that that ***** one considers to be vice may, to another, be seen not as such. The reverse may also apply, for where ***** sees himself as performing in virtue, others might perceive some ulterior drive. Thus, it ***** rather ***** to reconcile ***** which does in fact define our cause for moral **********, though all figures of importance to the historical discourse on philosophy have ventured a framework. Considering the ideas ***** philosophers ***** as Kant, Mill and Aristotle, and in light of some ***** the ***** expressed by authors D'Arcy McNickle and George Eliot, we can see that ethical moral*****y is a concept which is vulner*****ble to a high degree of ideological disagreement.

The 18th century in particular would witness a flurry of activity, with the latter generation of the Enlightenment Era providing a spirited exchange across decades of literature on that ***** constitutes moral behavior. In our investigation here of ***** notion of Universal Law as one possible lens through which to underst***** morality, consideration ***** German theologian Immanuel Kant's 1785 Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals provides an endorsement which is rather strict in its prescription of proper ethical behavior. His perspective be*****g derived in no small part due to his religious piety, we recognize that t***** is, at the very least, a cons*****tency bet*****en his moral foundation *****d ***** same Judeo-Christian ethic which forms the base of western society.

Emmanuel Kant's examination ***** the topic deems any 'bad' behavior as an unacceptable deviation from moral st*****dards though, advising ***** it violates human responsibility. His entire premise, in *****, for the set of ethical regulations by which we are directed to abide, is based on the nature of man. Describing ***** dignity of the human as an aspect which makes it 'better' than other creatures, Kant attributes the task of moral ***** singularly to our species. He dictates that our sentient rationality, a compositional basis ***** dignity, orients us *****ward moral goodness. The only way that t***** can be achieved, ***** argues, is "for rational creatures to apprehend what *****y should do and, acting from a sense of duty, ***** it. This, Kant *****t, is the only thing ***** has 'moral worth.' Thus, if where were no rational beings, ***** moral dimension of the world would simply disappear." (Rachels, 129) This rationality, he asserts, is a g*****t which inclines us with ***** responsibility to preserve mor*****l order. To accomplish this, man cannot be entitled ***** make conditional exceptions to hard-and-fast rules of conduct. Accordingly, Kant lays out a concise framework ***** justice, admonishing that "'if you slander an*****, you slander y*****self; if you strike another, you ***** *****rself; if you kill another, ***** kill yourself.' This is the only principle which... can definitely assign both ***** quality and