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RATIONALIZED ETHICS AND EMOTIONALIZED
ETHICS
Ethical Rationality
The morality is based on reason
Aristotle
1. Man's good deduced from human nature
2. Good as essentially rational
3. Rationality as the distinctive mark of the human creature
4. Reason as the supreme condition of mtorality
5. The function of moral reason
6. Autonomy as individual reason
7. Good will as pure practical reason
8. Moral law as the rational principle
9. Moral principle as a priori principles of reason
Ethical Sentimentality
The morality is based on personal feelings
1. Personal interest as personal feeling
2. Personal feeling satisfied by moral action
Hume
1. " Reason as slave of the passions "
2. Deficiency of reason
3. The ultimate ends on the sentiment
4. Internal feeling as criterion of moral good and evil
5. Value as a matter or sentiment
6. Empiricism as foundation of moral principles: system of ethics founded on facts and
observation