PHILOS 1E03 Chapter The Nicomachean Ethics 1.1-1.6: Readings 3 – Aristotle Book 1 (The Human Good)
16 Jan 2017
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Readings 3 aristotle book 1: the human good. Chapter 1: all human activities aim at some good some goods are subordinate to others: Every art and every inquiry is thought to aim at some good. For this reason, the good has rightly been declared to be something at which all things aim. Differences are found among ends; some produce activities while others are products apart from the activities that produce them. As there are many actions, there are also are many ends. Chapter 2: the science of the human good is politics: If there is some end of the things we do, clearly then this must be the good and the chief good. We must try to determine what this chief good is, and of which science or capacities it is the object of. We must not expect more precision than the subject-matter admits of. The student should have reached years of discretion.
