Warrigal comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 September 2011 11:21:13PM 4 points [-]

"Our present study is not, like other studies, purely theoretical in intention; for the object of our inquiry is not to know what virtue is but how to become good, and that is the sole benefit of it." —Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics (translated by James E. C. Weldon; emphasis added)