The great man (bit of a pompous prig, actually) was demonstrating that
happiness is the final end of all activity. Mathematics, aesthetic
appreciation, various incarnations of the Mac OS and the use of the Olympus
are merely means to that end. DOS, on the other hand...
Andrew
>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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