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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / b. Types of intention

135	All activity aims at the good [Plato]
	Full Idea: All activity aims at the good.
	From: Plato (Gorgias [c.387 BCE], 499e)
	A reaction: He includes non-conscious activity, so this is the 'teleological' view of nature, which seems a bit optimistic to the modern mind.