THE EDENEUM CODEX · ETHICS
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle · Chapter I, free
Every art aims at some good.
Aristotle opens his ethics with the crafts: the bridle-maker serves the rider, the rider the general, each art the one above it. Follow the order up and you reach the question the whole book answers: what is the good we want for its own sake?
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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.”
Every skill, every area of study, and every action or choice we make is aimed at achieving something good. This is why people often describe the ultimate good as "that which everything aims toward."
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