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But Deliberative Excellence is a form of correctness in deliberation [so that we
have first to investigate what deliberation is, and what object it deals
with].1 However,
‘correctness’ in this connection is ambiguous, and plainly it is not
every kind of correctness in deliberation that constitutes Deliberative Excellence. A man
of deficient self-restraint or a bad man may as a result of calculation arrive at the
object he proposes as the right thing to do, so that he will have deliberated correctly,
although he will have gained something extremely
evil; whereas to have deliberated well is felt to be a good thing. Therefore it is this
kind of correctness in deliberation that is Deliberative Excellence, namely being correct
in the sense of arriving at something good.2
1 The sentence bracketed interrupts the argument; and no examination of deliberation follows.
2 No distinction seems to be made between arriving at the right conclusion of a practical syllogism, i.e., inferring correctly what is to be done as a means to some End, and actually achieving that End by action.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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