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Moreover, it is not easy to see how
knowing that same Ideal Good will help a weaver or carpenter in the practice of his own
craft, or how anybody will be a better physician or general for having contemplated the
absolute Idea. In fact it does not appear that the physician studies even health1 in the abstract; he studies the health of the human being—or
rather of some particular human being, for it is individuals that he has to cure.
Let us here conclude our discussion of this subject.
1 i.e., the particular good which is the end of his own science.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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