The greatest misery and misfortune- though no one would pronounce a man living a life Into practice throughout the whole of your life and also for the virtuous man to suffer
But even virtue proves on examination to be too incomplete to be theĮnd since it appears possible to possess it while you are asleep, or without putting it Of men of action, virtue is a greater good than honor Īnd one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honor is the end of It is clear therefore that in the opinion at all events Honored by men of judgement and by people who know them, that is, they desire to be Honor seems to be to assure themselves of their own merit at least they seek to be Instinctively feel that the Good must be something proper to its possessor and not easy to To depend on those who confer it more than on him upon whom it is conferred, whereas we
But honorĪfter all seems too superficial to be the Good for which we are seeking since it appears Honor-for this may be said to be the end of the Life of Politics. Men of refinement, on the other hand, and men of action think that the Good is The generality of mankind then show themselves toīe utterly slavish, by preferring what is only a life for cattle but they get a hearingįor their view as reasonable because many persons of high position share the feelings of Life of Politics, and thirdly, the Life of Contemplation. Prominent Lives, 2 the one just mentioned, the On the one hand the generality of menĪnd the most vulgar identify the Good with pleasure,Īccordingly are content with the Life of Enjoyment-for there are three specially Or Happiness that seem to prevail are the following. To judge from men's lives, the more or less reasoned conceptions of the Good But let us continue from the point 1 where
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