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From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 20:54:54 -0600
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> ps. For all those people who like to append little, philosophical epithets
> to their emails, here's a proper one about 'happiness' :-)  -
> "Now we call that which is in itself worthy of pursuit more final

for example, understanding or the apprehension of beauty

> than that
> which is worthy of pursuit for the sake of something else,

for example, computer science or classical Greek grammar

> and that which
> is never desireable for the sake of something else more final than the
> things that are desireable both in themselves and for the sake of that
> other thing,

as for example mathematics is desirable in itself for understanding, but
also to some degree to understand the history of DOS 1.0

> and therefore we call final without qualification that which
> is always desireable in itself and never for the sake of something else."

for example, beauty or the understanding of things as they are

> Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1:7

See, Aristotle is quite eloquent but short on examples. ;-)

Joel W.

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