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since the interests of master and slave are the same. It seemed to Aristotle that the individual's freedom of choice made an absolutely accurate analysis of human affairs impossible. "Practical science," then, such as politics or ethics, was called science only by courtesy and analogy. The inherent limitations on practical science are made clear in Aristotle's concepts of human nature and self-realization. Human nature certainly involves, for everyone, a capacity for forming habits; but the habits that a particular individual forms depend on that individual's culture and repeated personal choices. All human beings want "happiness," an active, engaged realization of their innate capacities, but this goal can be achieved in a multiplicity of ways. John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism (Latin utilis,"useful"), in ethics, the doctrine that what is useful is good, and consequently, that the ethical value of conduct is determined by the utility of its results. The term utilitarianism is ...

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since good can mean many things, such as useful, excellent, harmony, creation/creativity, enough, et cetera. Whereas, Aristotle’s approach is practical and “down to earth”, Mill persistently tries to make his theory just the same, but fails remarkably in my mind in attempting to do so. Mill mentions that he would not make “morality a science, but an art” and says that it’s a type of art, because it’s relative in the sense that it’s the application of a law to an individual case. However, It should be mentioned that Mill goes on with this by saying, however morality does indeed have an unrecognized standard, a (tacit standard). Here, one can start sensing the discrepancy right away, for ...

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