COMPARISON: THE HIGHEST GOOD
Aristotle
Kant
Mill
What is the
highest good?
What is to be
evaluated?
happiness
(excellence)
good will
happiness
(pleasure)
character
actions
actions
On what basis?
excellence, nobility
motive
consequences
What is the role
of reason?
What is the role
of pleasure?
balancing, putting
calculating maximum
choosing, law-making
things in proportion
utility
that which is to be
of no value,
intrinsically valuable
balanced; a tool
an obstacle to duty