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[15]
Now it is true that this argument has a certain
plausibility; but it does not seem to square with the actual procedure of the sciences.
For these all aim at some good, and seek to make up their deficiencies,1 but they
do not trouble about a knowledge of the Ideal Good. Yet if it were so potent an aid, it is
improbable that all the professors of the arts and sciences should not know it, nor even
seek to discover it.
1 Or perhaps ‘to supply what is lacking of it’ （the good at which they aim）; cf. 7.17.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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