PHIL 1100 Chapter Notes -Nicomachean Ethics, Final Good, Godsent
13 Dec 2013
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. Where there are ends apart from the actions, it is the nature of the products to be better than the activities. The master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends; for it is for the sake of the former that the latter are pursued. It makes no difference whether the activities themselves are the ends of the actions, or something else apart from the activities, as in the case of the sciences mentioned. Political science admit of much variety and fluctuation of opinion, so that they may be thought to exist only by convention, and not by nature: goods have a similar fluctuation because they bring harm to many people.
