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“Since then of all things which may be done there is some one End which we desire for its own sake, and with a view to which we desire everything else; and since we do not choose in all instances with a further End in view... this plainly must be the Chief Good, _i.e._ the best thing of all.”
Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Section 1·384-322 BCE

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Aristotle
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384-322 BCE · Peripatetic Philosophy
Greek philosopher and polymath.
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