Aristotle And Kant

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a high standard for universal morality. Kant’s reasoning was that reason is the basis for morality, and it can only be found by starting from reason. Kant’s main point was the categorical imperative. This was his way of describing that humans lack any insight into the moral realm, and that we can only ask ourselves whether what we may be planning on doing has the potential to be reasonful, law abiding and moral on an equal level for everyone. Another idea of Kant’s was that morality is not based on consequence or feeling, but on reasoning alone. He believed that emotions are far to unstable to be the base of anything. If we were to let our lives be affected by fear and inclination, (both emotions), then we allow ourselves to be governed by the world among us, and therefore not by ourselves. Autonomy, self-government, happens only when we are under the rule of reason. If we allow the world to make our decisions for us then we are not using reason and therefore not acting morally.
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