CAS PH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Glaucon, Habituation, Special Functions
4 Oct 2018
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Every activity aims at an end or goal. Some activities are subordinate to others, in the sense that the end of the subordinate activity is pursued in the interest of furthering some superordinate activity. Bridle-making has the end of making good bridles for horses. But the end is ultimately to further good horsemanship. You keep on going up and up in the end of activities. We can think of various particular human activities this way. For example: studying is for getting good grades which is for getting good jobs which is for . The good is the ultimate end of all human actions. Every action in your life is ultimately leading to the ultimate end (the good). The good is complete: it is choice-worthy for its own sake and not for the sake of something else (we have been calling this an intrinsic good) All other goals are extrinsic goods that reach to the intrinsic good (the good)
