Transcription of Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
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Nicomachean EthicsAristotleTranslated by W. D. RossBatoche BooksKitchener1999 ContentsBOOK I .. 3 BOOK II .. 20 BOOK III .. 33 BOOK IV .. 53 BOOK V .. 71 BOOK VI .. 91 BOOK VII .. 105 BOOK VIII .. 127 BOOK IX .. 145 BOOK X .. 163 BOOK I1 Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, isthought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightlybeen declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain differenceis found among ends; some are activities, others are products apart fromthe activities that produce them. Where there are ends apart from theactions, it is the nature of the products to be better than the , as there are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also aremany; the end of the medical art is health, that of shipbuilding a vessel,that of strategy victory, that of economics wea
those who desire and act in accordance with a rational principle knowl-edge about such matters will be of great benefit. These remarks about the student, the sort of treatment to be ex-pected, and the purpose of the inquiry, may be taken as our preface. 4 Let us resume our inquiry and state, in view of the fact that all knowl-
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