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Aristotle: Highest Good (Everything we do seeks some good (end). Ends are…
Aristotle: Highest Good
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There is one good that all actions seek, values for it's own sake and nothing else (1.2)
If there were not this one good, desire would be empty and futile as they would go on for infinity (1.2)
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Reason why Socratic view of happiness (virtue is sufficient) is wrong: 'it seems possible for someone to possess the virtues but be asleep/inactive'. Someone is happy depending on how they act, just as 'Olympic prizes are not for the finest and strongest but for the contestants' (1.8)
'But the best good is apparently something complete. And so, if only one end is complete, the good we are looking for will be this end; if more than one end are complete, it will be the most complete end of these'
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Political Science prescribes which other sciences should be studied and by whom -> it's end will achieve the end of the other disciplines
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