Oedipus

What does it take to be a "good" person?At the end of the story, Oedipus accepts the mistakes he's made, but does that acctually make him a good person? I don't think Oedipus was a good person at the beginning of the story, for one he killed, and he was very arrogant towards Kreon and Teiresius. I don't feel that Oedipus' owning up to his mistakes actually makes up for what he did