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From: <RLatulip@ao*.co*>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:09:22 EDT
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Cc: dlv@ga*.ne*, wrolf@co*.ne*, bdi@wh*.ne*, JSGomes117@ao*.co*
Subject: Aristotle was a Hogarthian.
Topics  by Aristotle  written 350 B.C.E. Translated by W. A. Pickard-
Cambridge, 
Book III, Part 1.  

"The question which is the more desirable, or the better, of two or more 
things, should be examined upon the following lines: only first of all it 
must be clearly laid down that the inquiry we are making concerns not 
things that are widely divergent and that exhibit great differences from one
another (for nobody raises any doubt whether happiness or wealth is more
desirable), but things that are nearly related and about which we
commonly discuss for which of the two we ought rather to vote, because we
do not see any advantage on either side as compared with the other.
Clearly, in such cases if we can show a single advantage, or more than one,
our judgement will record our assent that whichever side happens to have
the advantage is the more desirable. 

First, then, that which is more lasting or secure is more desirable than that
which is less so: and so is that which is more likely to be chosen by the
prudent or by the good man or by the right law, or by men who are good in
any particular line, when they make their choice as such, or by the experts
in regard to any particular class of things; i.e. either whatever most of them
or what all of them would choose; e.g. in medicine or in carpentry those
things are more desirable which most, or all, doctors would choose; or, in
general, whatever most men or all men or all things would choose, e.g.
the good: for everything aims at the good. You should direct the argument
you intend to employ to whatever purpose you require. Of what is 'better' or
'more desirable' the absolute standard is the verdict of the better science,
though relatively to a given individual the standard may be his own
particular science...

....Moreover, whenever two things are very much like one another, and we
cannot see any superiority in the one over the other of them, we should
look at them from the standpoint of their consequences. For the one which
is followed by the greater good is the more desirable: or, if the
consequences be evil, that is more desirable which is followed by the
less evil. For though both may be desirable, yet there may possibly be
some unpleasant consequence involved to turn the scale."


Who are the experts in the class of extreme diving and what would they
choose?

Ray LaTulippe



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