Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book 1

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Aristotle seems to have two intentions in his Nicomachean Ethics Book 1. Those being, to make a practical guide to ethical living in a way that one could actually implement in his own life, and more importantly, to find the highest possible good. The book starts by analyzing human action, by saying that all human actions, “Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice…” will seek an end, or a goal. “…and so the good has been aptly described as that at which everything aims.” (Crisp:1.1 I094a) He claims that the end is an end because it is good, so much that he refers to this end as the “good” and uses the terms interchangeably throughout the publishing. The Greek term for this is “telos”, which is defined as

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