id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2630 Nicomachean Ethics - Wikipedia .html text/html 19224 1427 70 Aristotle says that while all the different things called good do not seem to have the same name by chance, it is perhaps better to "let go for now" because this attempt at precision "would be more at home in another type of philosophic inquiry", and would not seem to be helpful for discussing how particular humans should act, in the same way that doctors do not need to philosophize over the definition of health in order to treat each case.[20] In other words, Aristotle is insisting on the importance of his distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy, and the Nicomachean Ethics is practical. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2630.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2630.txt