Heterodox
Aristotle dealt with this in Nichomachean Ethics, Book One. Aristotle asserts as evident that every agent acts for an end that the agent perceives as being a good. Aristotle went on to say that agents disagree over what is perceived to be good. Then Aristotle examines various theories based on different conceptions of the meaning of "good." "Good" means desirable. So this reduces to desire is the chief motivator. But desire is not homogenous. The ancients distinguished between base...
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