Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, And Immanuel Kant

The three ethical theories were made by three famous philosophers Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant. These three philosophers are arguably the most famous philosophers in the branch of normative ethics. Normative ethics deals with the moral standards that regulate our actions and categorize them as whether they’re right or wrong. The theories of ethics consist of Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, Mill's Utilitarianism, and Kant's Deontological Ethics. I believe that Aristotle’s theory is closer to the truth than the others. However, they all have positives and negatives to them. Therefore, I think that we could get closer to the truth about morality by taking some truth from each ethical theory.
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Utilitarianism states that good is what brings the most happiness to people. Mill also believes that people are not satisfied with just physical pleasures, but they strive to achieve pleasure of the mind as well. There are two main types of utilitarianism including act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarianism focuses on the consequences of specific actions of a human person in a particular situation and rule utilitarianism suggests that the principle of utility can be used to generate and test rules can be employed is similar situations. The assumption is that if we follow a set of rules that give us the best consequences our actions will result in the greater good for everyone around us.
Some strengths of utilitarianism include the importance of happiness, consideration of the greater good, and relevance of intention. Meanwhile, Some disadvantages of utilitarianism are that it is not the only thing of value and the end doesn't justify the means. Mill and Kant have opposite views points, Kant thinks people can decide what is moral through reason alone and Mill thinks that through experience people can determine what is good or evil based on pleasure and