What does your highest good mean?

noun. (Chiefly with the) the most important or pre-eminent good; especially the ultimate goal according to which values and priorities are established in an ethical system. In early use frequently specifically applied to God.

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What is the highest good According to Kant?

Kant understands the highest good, most basically, as happiness proportionate to virtue, where virtue is the unconditioned good and happiness is the conditioned good. What does Aristotle say is the highest good? For Aristotle, eudaimonia is the highest human good, the only human good that is desirable for its own sake (as an end in itself) rather than for the sake of something else (as a means toward some other end).

What is the highest good According to Plato?

What are the three characteristics of the highest good in accordance to Aristotle's view about highest goodness? Aristotle's search for the good is a search for the highest good, and he assumes that the highest good, whatever it turns out to be, has three characteristics: it is desirable for itself, it is not desirable for the sake of some other good, and all other goods are desirable for its sake.

How does a person arrive at her highest good?

Happiness is the highest good because we choose happiness as an end sufficient in itself. Even intelligence and virtue are not good only in themselves, but good also because they make us happy. We call people "good" if they perform their function well.