PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Rationality, Regress Argument, Olin
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And that includes human beings; they have telos as well: the utilitarian always asks, what action can i take that will cause the greatest amount of good. Moulding: with kant, we should act in accordance to the categorical imperative. We need to: we would be living well relative to the end of a human being, everything has a nature, a function, a form. Some things are chosen as a means (wealth is only a means; medicine, work/labour: 2. Some things are chosen both as an end and as a means (exercise, eating, reading: 3. There is something else (???: there is some natural end for humans, that goal is going to be happiness but not pleasure; although many people do seem to think this. There is a feeling of pleasure, we enjoy exercising, reading, or eating, but that is not the whole story: some things, aristotle thinks, are just ends.
