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Let thus much suffice by way of preface on these three points,

the student, the spirit in which our observations should be

received, and the object which we propose.

Chapter II.

And now, resuming the statement with which we commenced, since

all knowledge and moral choice grasps at good of some kind or

another, what good is that which we say πολιτικὴ aims at? or, in

other words, what is the highest of all the goods which are the

objects of action?