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Christine M. Korsgaard V1 - 04/16/2008 4:15pm Page 1294 aristotle s Function purpose of theNicomachean Ethicsis to discover the human good, that atwhich we ought to aim in life and action. aristotle tells us that everyone calls thisgoodeudaimonia(happiness, flourishing, well-being), but that people disagreeabout what it consists in ( ). , aristotle suggests that wemight arrive at a clearer conception of happiness if we could first ascertain theergon( Function ) of a human being ( ). The justification of thisline of inquiry is that for all things that have a Function or activity, the goodand the well is thought to reside in the Function ( 27). Thecompact Argument that follows establishes that the human Function is anactive life of the element that has a rational principle ( 4).

Aristotle opens his version of the argument with these words: Presumably, however, to say that happiness is the chief good seems a platitude, and a clearer account of what it is is still desired. This might perhaps be given, if we could first ascertain the function of man. For just as for a flute player, a sculptor, or any

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