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THE “END-IN-ITSELF”.
panies the Aristotelian doctrine. He tells us that for anything to be “good” in life, it must be an end-in-itself: that is,—something desirable for its own sake, and not as a mere means to something else; something thoroughly worthy, in which the mind can rest satisfied. Thus all mere amusements are excluded from being good, because they are not ends-in-themselves. And this maxim may be deduced from Aristotle: “Act as far as possible so that at any moment you may be able to say to yourself, ‘What I am now doing is an end-in-itself.’”
