The Good of Which We Are in Search

We are in search now of something that is so. Are different individual things called good by virtue of being from one source, or all conducive to one end? However, perhaps we ought to leave these questions now, for an accurate investigation of them is more properly the business of a different philosophy. Even if there is some one good, predicated in common of all things that are good, manifestly it cannot be the object of human action or attainable by man. It may readily occur to anyone that it would be better to attain a knowledge of it with a view to such concrete goods as are attainable and practical. With this as a kind of model in our hands, we shall the