خلاصه ماشینی:
"The paper also studies the way moral concepts such as "good" and "bad" are abstracted from the relation between human nature, voluntary acts and their positive or negative effects upon the agent.
Although genuine desires are the same among human beings and they lead them towards their needs for survival and happiness (or in other words larger quantity and greater quality of life), the result of their interaction and the way of their application might be different.
Now let us consider again characteristics of a true moral ideal: that it has to be in complete accordance with our desires,16 with our rational standards and above all with human nature, that it has to be practical and that it has to encompass all other ends and values and put them in the right order or hierarchy.
Although the above account is enough for the main purpose of this essay, here I would like to refer to different proposals about what should be considered as ultimate end or intrinsic good or moral ideal for human beings.
There are lots of candidates such as life, consciousness, and activity; health and strength; pleasures and satisfactions of all desires or certain kinds of; happiness, beatitude, contentment, and so forth; truth; knowledge and true opinion of various kinds, understanding, wisdom; beauty, harmony, proportion in objects contemplated; aesthetic experience; morally good dispositions or virtues; mutual affection, love, friendship, co-operation; just distribution of goods and evils; harmony and proportion in one’s own life; power; and experiences of achievement; self-expression; freedom; peace, security; adventure and novelty; good reputation, honour, respect."