Abstract

In the Eudemian Ethics I, 1, 1214a9-12, Aristotle draws a distinction between questions to be investigated that contribute just to knowledge of their object and questions that contribute to the practice and acquisition of their object. Next, he determines the questions of the second type which he intends to examine in the first place: “what is living well?” and “how can it be acquired?” The paper purports to make clear what is the ground of that distinction and use this result to understand the structure of the chapters 1-5, which examine the opinions that answer those specific questions.

Keywords: Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics.