Exercise 1.

Reading Comprehension Task

Instructions: Compare and contrast each pair of terms related to Aristotle’s Nichomachean
Ethics as discussed in this section.
1. Instrument Good – Ultimate Good.
- According to Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, instrumental good and ultimate good
are two types of good. Instrumental good is a kind of good that means to achieving
something else or some other end while Ultimate good, known as the intrinsic good,
is good itself. The ultimate good is also better than the instrumental good since the
latter is the end in itself, meaning a person does not have to find something else to
achieve. Instrumental good on the other hand is only temporary and most of the
time a person still finds it unsatisfactory and still wants to achieve something better.