The notion of the highest good is central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, despite the fact that their approaches to ethics are often thought to be diametrically opposed. A team of experts shed new light on the work of both major philosophers, and reveal the richness, complexity, and fruitfulness of the notion of the highest good.

Joachim Aufderheide studied Philosophy, Greek, and Latin at the Universities of Göttingen and St Andrews. He received his PhD from St Andrews for a thesis on pleasure in Plato and Aristotle in 2011. Since then he works as lecturer in philosophy at King's College London.
; Ralf M. Bader is a Fellow of Merton College and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Previously he was a Bersoff Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at New York University. His research focuses on Kant, ethics, metaphysics, and political philosophy.

• Introduction


• 1: Dorothea Frede: Determining the good in action: wish, deliberation, and choice


• 2: Joachim Aufderheide: The content of happiness: a new case for theôria


• 3: David Charles: Aristotle on the highest good: a new approach


• 4: Christopher Shields: The summum bonum in Aristotle's Ethics: fractured goodness


• 5: Robert Louden: The end of all human action / The final object of all my conduct


• 6: Stephen Engstrom: The complete object of practical knowledge


• 7: Rachel Barney: The inner voice: Kant on conditionality and god as cause


• 8: Ralf M. Bader: Kant's theory of the highest good


• 9: David Sussman: The highest good: who needs it?


• 10: Jens Timmermann: Why some things must remain unknown: Kant on faith, moral motivation and the highest good


• Index