Ethica Nicomachea I.1
Bernardo CDA Vasconcelos / Filosofia
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- Translated by H. Rackham
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πᾶσα τέχνη καὶ πᾶσα μέθοδος , ὁμοίως δὲ πρᾶξίς τε καὶ προαίρεσις , ἀγαθοῦ τινὸς ἐφίεσθαι δοκεῖ : διὸ καλῶς ἀπεφήναντο τἀγαθόν , οὗ πάντ᾽ ἐφίεται . διαφορὰ δέ τις φαίνεται τῶν τελῶν : τὰ μὲν γάρ εἰσιν ἐνέργειαι , τὰ δὲ παρ᾽ αὐτὰς ἔργα τινά . ὧν δ᾽ εἰσὶ τέλη τινὰ παρὰ τὰς πράξεις , ἐν τούτοις βελτίω πέφυκε τῶν ἐνεργειῶν τὰ ἔργα . πολλῶν δὲ πράξεων οὐσῶν καὶ τεχνῶν καὶ ἐπιστημῶν πολλὰ γίνεται καὶ τὰ τέλη : ἰατρικῆς μὲν γὰρ ὑγίεια , ναυπηγικῆς δὲ πλοῖον , στρατηγικῆς δὲ νίκη , οἰκονομικῆς δὲ πλοῦτος . ὅσαι δ᾽ εἰσὶ τῶν τοιούτων ὑπὸ μίαν τινὰ δύναμιν , καθάπερ ὑπὸ τὴν ἱππικὴν χαλινοποιικὴ καὶ ὅσαι ἄλλαι τῶν ἱππικῶν ὀργάνων εἰσίν , αὕτη δὲ καὶ πᾶσα πολεμικὴ πρᾶξις ὑπὸ τὴν στρατηγικήν , κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν δὴ τρόπον ἄλλαι ὑφ᾽ ἑτέρας : ἐν ἁπάσαις δὲ τὰ τῶν ἀρχιτεκτονικῶν τέλη πάντων ἐστὶν αἱρετώτερα τῶν ὑπ᾽ αὐτά : τούτων γὰρ χάριν κἀκεῖνα διώκεται . διαφέρει δ᾽ οὐδὲν τὰς ἐνεργείας αὐτὰς εἶναι τὰ τέλη τῶν πράξεων ἢ παρὰ ταύτας ἄλλο τι , καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῶν λεχθεισῶν ἐπιστημῶν .
Every
art
and
every
investigation
,
and
likewise
every
practical
pursuit
or
undertaking
,
seems
to
aim
at
some
good
:
hence
it
has
been
well
said
that
the
Good
is
That
at
which
all
things
aim
.
[
2
]
（It
is
true
that
a
certain
variety
is
to
be
observed
among
the
ends
at
which
the
arts
and
sciences
aim
:
in
some
cases
the
activity
of
practising
the
art
is
itself
the
end
,
1
whereas
in
others
the
end
is
some
product
over
and
above
the
mere
exercise
of
the
art
;
and
in
the
arts
whose
ends
are
certain
things
beside
the
practice
of
the
arts
themselves
,
these
products
are
essentially
superior
in
value
to
the
activities
.
）
[
3
]
But
as
there
are
numerous
pursuits
and
arts
and
sciences
,
it
follows
that
their
ends
are
correspondingly
numerous
:
for
instance
,
the
end
of
the
science
of
medicine
is
health
,
that
of
the
art
of
shipbuilding
a
vessel
,
that
of
strategy
victory
,
that
of
domestic
economy
wealth
.
[
4
]
Now
in
cases
where
several
such
pursuits
are
subordinate
to
some
single
faculty—as
bridle-making
and
the
other
trades
concerned
with
horses
'
harness
are
subordinate
to
horsemanship
,
and
this
and
every
other
military
pursuit
to
the
science
of
strategy
,
and
similarly
other
arts
to
different
arts
again—in
all
these
cases
,
I
say
,
the
ends
of
the
master
arts
are
things
more
to
be
desired
than
the
ends
of
the
arts
subordinate
to
them
;
since
the
latter
ends
are
only
pursued
for
the
sake
of
the
former
.
[
6
]
（And
it
makes
no
difference
whether
the
ends
of
the
pursuits
are
the
activities
themselves
or
some
other
thing
beside
these
,
as
in
the
case
of
the
sciences
mentioned
.
）