The Importance of Reason

Since all knowledge and moral choice grasps at good of some kind or another, what good is that which we say politics aims at? Or in other words, what is the highest of all the goods, which are the objects of action? So far as name goes, there is a pretty general agreement. But about the nature of this happiness, men dispute. And the multitude do not in their account of it agree with the wise. Not to sift all the opinions would be perhaps rather a fruitless task. It shall suffice to sift those which are most generally current, or are thought to have some reason in them. We must not forget the difference between reasoning from principles, and