Now eabsp;man judges well what he knows, and of the things he is a good judge: on eabsp;particular matter then he is a good judge who has been instructed in it, and in a general way the man of general mental cultivation.
Henbsp;the young man is not a fit student of Moral Philosophy, for he has no experienbsp;in the as of life, while all that is said presuppos and is ed with the: and in the plabsp;sinbsp;he is apt to follow the impuls of his passions, he will hear as though he heard not, and to no profit, the end in view being practibsp;and not mere knowledge.
And I draw no distin between young in years, and youthful in temper and disposition: the defebsp;to whibsp;I allude being no direbsp;result of the time, but of living at the bebsp;and call of passion, and following eabsp;objebsp;as it ris.
For to them that are subsp;the knowledge es to be unprofitable, as to tho of imperfebsp;lf-trol: but, to tho who form their desires and absp;in accordanbsp;with reason, to have knowledge on the points must be very profitable.
Let thus mubsp;suffibsp;by way of prefabsp;on the three points, the student, the spirit in whibsp;our obrvations should be received, and the objebsp;whibsp;we propo.
And now, resuming the statement with whibsp;we enced, sinbsp;all knowledge and moral choibsp;grasps at good of some kind or another, what good is that whibsp;we say politikai aims at? or, in other words, what is the highest of all the goods whibsp;are the objebsp;of a?
So far as name goes, there is a pretty general agreement: for HAPPINESS both the multitude and the refined few call it, and "living well" and "doing well" they ceive to be the same with "being happy;" but about the Nature of this Happiness, men dispute, and the multitude do not in their at of it agree with the wi.
For some say it is some one of tho things whibsp;are palpable and apparent, as pleasure or wealth or honour; in fabsp;some one thing, some another; nay, oftentimes the same man gives a different at of it; for when ill, he calls it health; when poor, wealth:and scious of their own ignoranbsp;men admire tho who talk grandly and above their prehension.