PHILOS 25A Lecture 33: Nicomachean Ethics Book I 1-7
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Nicomachean ethics book i 1-7: practical philosophy: searching for the principle. Heterogeneity of goodness: every craft, investigation, action, and decision aims at some good. Hence the good has been well described as that at which everything aims. : this is a problem because there might not be one particular good that everyone pursues. Since there are many actions, crafts, and sciences, the ends turn out to be many as well; for health is the end of medicine, a boat of boatbuilding, victory of generalship, and wealth of household management. Political science : to answer the question of whether or not there is a chief good is the task of political science. Meanwhile, the moral philosophy of what is good for the individual is subordinate to the science of what is good for the community: methodological caveats for political science:
