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The Life of Money-making is a constrained1 kind of life, and clearly wealth is not the Good we are in
search of, for it is only good as being useful, a means to something else. On this score
indeed one might conceive the ends before mentioned to have a better claim, for they are
approved for their own sakes. But even they do not really seem to be the Supreme Good;
however, many arguments against them have been disseminated, so we may dismiss
them.
1 Literally ‘violent’; the adjective is applied to the strict diet and and laborious exercises of athletes, and to physical phenomena such as motion, in the sense of ‘constrained’, ‘not natural’. The text here has been suspected.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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Citation URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg010.perseus-eng1:1.5.8
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