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Ethical theorists: A comparison of main ideas. Aristotle: Teleological Approach. Aristotle (384-322 BCE) Educated in Plato’s Academy Explored natural world and human experience rather than ideas Teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle with Bust of Homer by Rembrandt.
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Aristotle: Teleological Approach Aristotle (384-322 BCE) Educated in Plato’s Academy Explored natural world and human experience rather than ideas Teacher of Alexander the Great Aristotle with Bust of Homer by Rembrandt
Immanuel Kant: Deontological Approach Kant was born, lived and died in Königsberg, Germany At the age of forty-six, Kant received an appointment as a professor of logic and metaphysics at his alma mater the University of Königsberg. His famous claim: "Though our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises out of experience.“ A philosophical classic is his work Critique of Pure Reason wherein he asserts that our perceptual apparatus is capable of ordering sense-impressions into intelligible unities, which, while in themselves cannot be proven, we are led to conclude through "pure reason," that intelligible unities, such as God, freedom, and immortality, do exist magazine.uchicago.edu/. ../punchline.html
Emmanuel Levinas: Relational Approach (1905-1995) Representative philosopher of relational ethics Jewish Born in Lithuania At 17 moved to France Lost much of his family in the Holocaust
