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These questions being settled, let us consider whether happiness is one of the things we
praise or rather one of those that we honor1; for it is at all events clear that it is not a mere
potentiality.2
1 The definition of happiness is now shown to be supported by the current terms of moral approbation; apparently ἐπαινετον, ‘praiseworthy’ or ‘commendable,’ was appropriate to means , or things having relative value, and τίμιον, ‘valued’ or ‘revered,’ to ends, or things of absolute value.
2 i.e., not merely a potentiality of good but an actual good, whether as means or end.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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