Topic > John Kant's Categorical Imperative - 1263

As I see it, ethical behaviors, which essentially mean, in my reading, ways of acting that are acceptable to others and are a process of learning in that given, determined context. It is also true that certain innate qualities may exist. For example, serving water to a thirsty individual, with or without learning process, may be an innate/natural quality and such actions would not consider whether the thirsty individual would say thank you or other similar words after drinking water. Serving water, which may be about Held's thoughtful argument, may not even be an action purely aimed at happiness, as Mill suggests. Such an action, even if it seems thoughtful, may just be a spontaneous duty, untaught and irrelevant to the topics of care, learned ethics and happiness, and not the intended reward. In any case, such a spontaneous action, even if of great value, is usually rare; while in today's context we need to be ethical every day in many disciplines and among all. For this reason Aristotle's views are broader