In this lecture, we study Book I, Chapter 1 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We discuss how every form of rational human activity aims at some good, the precise meanings of art, method, action, and deliberate choice, the difference between activities and products as ends, the hierarchical ordering of goods, and how Aristotle's philosophical observations provide an objective foundation for ethics that was later integrated into Catholic moral theology.

Mr. William C. Michael, O.P.