1. Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical pursuit or undertaking, seems to aim at some good: hence it has been well said that the Good ...

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The topics of encomia are virtue and vice, the noble and disgraceful, which are analyzed from this point of view in Rhet. 1.9.

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We take a self-sufficient thing to mean a thing which merely standing by itself alone renders life desirable lacking in nothing.

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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.

The act of making is not an end in itself, it is only a means, and belongs to something else. Whereas a thing done is an end in itself.

There will therefore be reciprocal proportion when the products have been equated, so that as farmer is to shoemaker, so may the shoemaker's product be to the ...