Aristotle | On the Good Life
In this excerpt from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores what it means to lead a good life and how this is related to pleasure, pain, virtue, and character. He concludes that happiness, or pleasure, is the chief good, or end goal, of a well-lived life.
-For Aristotle, the chief good must NOT be
A) final.
B) desirable in itself.
C) desired for the sake of something else.
D) chosen for its own sake.

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Aristotle argues that the chief good must be final, desirable in itself, and chosen for its own sake, meaning it should not be desired for the sake of something else.

Aristotle | on the Good Life