The Chief Good In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

The Chief Good In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle states that everything a person does, whether it’s creating something, asking about something, deciding something, or doing an action, is done so in the pursuit of an end goal, or “to seek some good” (1094a2). For every action we take, there is a specific benefit, or good, that we hope to gain. For example, when you prepare food for yourself, you hope to satisfy your hunger or taste something good, and when you ask a question, you hope to receive an answer that makes the topic clearer. In addition, when doing a certain action in order to acquire the good or the end, that end that is being sought after may be for the sake of another good down the road, another good down the road and itself, or plainly for the sake of itself. Everything we do is done with the intent of achieving either of those three entities.
Instead of aiming to achieving something else down the road, simply what you receive at that moment is enough. In Book 1 Chapter 2 of the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle states that in the chain of goods that we seek, there has to be a final end. If not, then the actions that we do would be “empty and futile” causing us to question why we are doing these actions in the first place (1094a22). In everything we do, there is a final end that we seek, and end that is the most complete and important. This end is the chief