Pleasure and pain are important in habituation. We must then consider the right way to act.Īnd the right sort of habituation must avoid excess andĭeficiency since these work to undermine the establishment We don't just want to know, we want to become good. Good question, because the aim of ethical theory is practical. Important,indeed all-important." 1103b22-25 Or another, right from our youth rather, it is very It is not unimportant, then, to acquire one sort of habit Hence we must display the right activities, sinceĭifferences in these imply corresponding differences in the (4) Virtue and vice are formed by good and bad actionsĬonclusion: The importance of habituation (3) Legislators concentrate on habituation (2) Natural capacities are not acquired by habituation (1) What is natural cannot be changed by habituation The aim is the truth roughly (generally) since we argue about what is usually good and so our conclusions can be expected to be no better. It is not clear what is just or fine in every case. And so, since our line of inquiry seeks these, it is a sort of political science.” For while it is satisfactory to acquire and preserve the good even for an individual, it is finer and more divine to acquire and preserve it for a people and for cities. For even if the good is the same for a city as for an individual, still the good of the city is apparently a greater and more complete good to acquire and preserve. “And since it uses the other sciences concerned with action, and moreover legislates what must be done and what avoided, its end will include the ends of the other sciences, and so this will be the human good. Therefore: “its end will include the ends of the other sciences, and so will be the human good.” It makes use of other sciences and determines what is to be done or avoided
Other honored capacities such as generalship, household management, rhetoric are subordinate to it Prescribes what is to be studied and directs learning The good is the end as desired the end is what is achieved and so can also be called the good or the goal. That is, some things are chosen for the sake of others. The hierarchy of ends has a corresponding hierarchy of goods. Good is the end or goal of every craft, investigation, action or decision.Įnds are of several sorts: Activities and Products of activities Brief notes for lectures on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
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