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To: cornelis
Where did you learn that?

Reading Ethics. It's a condensation of about three pages.

You aren't paraphrasing Aristotle. You're getting this from someone else or making it up yourself.

Nope.

57 posted on 01/16/2014 3:29:31 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: Carry_Okie

You don’t care to discuss it?


58 posted on 01/16/2014 3:51:59 PM PST by cornelis
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To: Carry_Okie
FWIW, Carry_Okie: "There are no ends; there are only means."

Aristotle: "If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good. . . . Since there are evidently more than one end, and we choose some of these (e.g. wealth, flutes, and in general instruments) for the sake of something else, clearly not all ends are final ends; but the chief good is evidently something final. Therefore, if there is only one final end, this will be what we are seeking, and if there are more than one, the most final of these will be what we are seeking. Now we call that which is in itself worthy of pursuit more final than that which is worthy of pursuit for the sake of something else, and that which is never desirable for the sake of something else more final than the things that are desirable both in themselves and for the sake of that other thing, and therefore we call final without qualification that which is always desirable in itself and never for the sake of something else.

Now such a thing happiness . . "

59 posted on 01/16/2014 4:09:24 PM PST by cornelis
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