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Summum Bonum and Judgments

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Judgments on the highest good have generally fallen into four categories:

  • Utilitarianism, when the highest good is identified with the maximum possible psychological happiness for the maximum number of people;
  • Eudaemonism or Virtue Ethics, when the highest good is identified with flourishing;
  • Rational Deontologism, when the highest good is identified with virtue or duty;
  • Rational Eudaemonism, or tempered Deontologism, when both virtue and happiness are combined in the highest good.

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