So far in the book, Aristotle has established that there is one end that we all share and are directed towards by our very being: happiness. Happiness is that for the sake of which all else is done: it is
Chapter 1 – Since only voluntary actions receive praise or blame, how do they differ from involuntary actions?
Compulsion – any case where the course of action lies in a thing outside agent and he contributes nothing.
Various examples of mixed
In this book, Aristotle sets out to define virtue. Complete definitions consist of a genus (matter), specific difference (form), agent, and end. He establishes the genus as hexis (disposition) by first considering the various principles in the soul, the specific
Chapter 1 – What are Goods?
There are many ends or goods because each work, art, inquiry has an end its directed to and these ends are all for a telos/good.
Every action that a human being does is for the