Mill Vs Per Aristotle

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Philosophers Aristotle and Mill both had comparable ideas of what it means to be happy. There theories of what creates happiness and how to become truly happy differed greatly. They both believed that happiness is important to have a fulfilled like. Aristotle’s ethical theory is based on moral virtue. He believed that all people are made up of vice and virtue. Moral virtue per Aristotle is found for the most part, through practice and habit and not through reasoning and discipline. John Mill is famous for his ethical theory on Utilitarianism. Mill defines the concept of utilitarianism on the principal that "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." Utilitarianism