According to Immanuel Kant, father of the morality of practical reason, a good will is good in itself. ... His morality of practical reason insists that morality can only be found through an examination of reason. ... Believing that the only good reason for doing the 'right thing' was because of duty. ... Providing us with another alternative for ethical reasoning is Aristotle's formulation of 'virtue ethics'. Aristotle considers what the ultimate goal of a worthwhile human life should be. ...

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Martha Nussbaum interprets Aristotle's virtues as absolutes in that she claims that virtues such as Justice, Temperance, Generosity etc. are essential elements of human flourishing across all societies and throughout time, therefore they are absolute principles. ... Although it may be overboard to describe all other modern virtue ethicists as moral relativists, Nussbaum makes it clear in that she believes a relativist approach is purely incompatible with Aristotle's virtue theory. ... Slote uses the words 'admirable' and 'deplorable' instead of 'good...

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