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Chapter I.

Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in

like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought,

at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad

description of the Chief Good is, "that which all things aim at."

Now there plainly is a difference in the Ends proposed: for in

some cases they are acts of working, and in others certain works

or tangible results beyond and beside the acts of working: and

where there are certain Ends beyond and beside the actions, the

works are in their nature better than the acts of working. Again,

since actions and arts and sciences are many, the Ends likewise

come to be many: of the healing art, for instance, health; of the

ship-building art, a vessel; of the military art, victory; and of

domestic management, wealth; are respectively the Ends.