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ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS
BOOK I
Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable
form, and in like manner every action and moral choice,
aims, it is thought, at some good: for which
reason a common and by no means a bad description of
the Chief Good is, “that which all things aim
at.”
Now there plainly is a difference in the Ends proposed:
for in some cases they are acts of working, and in
others certain works or tangible results beyond and
beside the acts of working: and where there are
certain Ends beyond and beside the actions, the works
are in their nature better than the acts of working.
Again, since actions and arts and sciences are many,
the Ends likewise come to be many: of the healing
art, for instance, health; of the ship-building art,
a vessel; of the military art, victory; and of domestic
management, wealth; are respectively the Ends.
And whatever of such actions, arts, or sciences range
under some one faculty (as under that of horsemanship
the art of making bridles, and all that are connected
with the manufacture of horse-furniture in general;
this itself again, and every action connected with
war, under the military art; and in the same way others
under others), in all such, the Ends of the master-arts
are more choice-worthy than those ranging under them,
because it is with a view to the former that the latter
are pursued.
