ABSTRACT
Knowledge, according to Aristotle, is of three main kinds - theoretical, practical, or productive, according as it is pursued for its own sake, as a means to conduct, or as a means to making something that is useful or beautiful. The supreme practical science-that to which all others are subordinate and ministerial-is politics, or, as we, with our fuller consciousness of man’s membership of communities other than the state, might be more inclined to call it, social science. Of this science ethics is but a part, and accordingly Aristotle never speaks of ‘ethics’ as a separate science, but only of ‘the study of character’ or ‘our discussions of character.’1
