ABSTRACT
Aristotle has dealt with the beginning of virtue (passion), the tools of virtue (the goods of luck), and the target of virtue (gentlemanliness). He now turns to the actual getting of the end, which requires knowing and doing what, in the here and now, the virtuous thing is and continuing thus through a complete life (for happiness is in a complete life, 1.4.1185a4–9). The first of these belongs to right reason and the second, presumably, to friendship.
