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Instrumental Good – Ultimate Good


- Instrumental good is how we value as a means or for the sake of something else and the
ultimate good is how we value as an end or for its own sake which both ultimate good and
instrumental good are instances of the rather special kind of value that is essentially connected to
choose.

2. Pleasure - Happiness
- In pleasure it can be neither good or bad because of natural accompaniment of
unimpeded activity. Happiness depends on acquiring a moral character, where one displays the
virtues of courage, generosity, justice, friendship, and citizenship in one's life. These virtues
involve striking a balance or "mean" between an excess and a deficiency which happiness is not
pleasure, nor is it virtue. It is the exercise of virtue.

3. Virtue – Vice
- Vice is a result when people give in to temptation while virtue is the character traits
people exhibit when they can resist temptation. Therefore, virtue is a act for reasons as vice is the
quality that prevents a thing from achieving its final end.

4. Intellectual Virtue – Moral Virtue


- Aristotle says that moral virtues are not innate, but rather that they are procured by
building up the habit for practicing them. An individual gets honest by acting honestly, or gets
unselfish by acting unselfishly. Aristotle noticed that it might be hard for a person to get
righteous in the event that the individual to become virtuous if he or she has not acquired the
habit of acting virtuously. A morally virtuous action requires an individual to be able to choose
how to respond to his or her own thoughts and feelings. Thus, the concept of moral responsibility
implies that an individual has some freedom to choose his or her own actions. For instance, it
might be hard for a person to get careful, in the event that the individual has not gained the
propensity for acting thoughtfully. It might likewise be hard for a person to get unselfish, in the
event that the individual has procured the propensity for acting selfishly.

5. Science and Technology – The Good Life


- The good life is the happy life. Aristotle argues that pleasure, power and fame do not
bring happiness, as experience proves. He persuasively argues that the life of virtue is the only
properly human life, and since happiness is human good, only the life of virtue can bring
happiness. There is a lot of art about life. Though you can easily turn living into a science.
Constantly tweaking and adjusting it as you like. According to your definition of “good.” Even
actively redefining what “a good life” means to you over time science and technology contribute
to happiness except insofar as they provide ways to relieve pain and suffering, which distract
from happiness, though some people demonstrate the ability to be happy in the midst of pain and
suffering.  It may be practiced virtuously, but the products do not have the character of virtue.
So, any product or idea can be used by individuals for good or bad. That does not make the
product or idea inherently bad. 

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