Full Idea
If what is final is whatever is an end but never a means, ...why should something be more valuable just because it is useless?
Gist of Idea
An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless!
Source
Christine M. Korsgaard (Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value [1986], 8 'Finality')
Book Reference
Korsgaard,Christine M.: 'Creating the Kingdom of Ends' [CUP 1996], p.230
A Reaction
Korsgaard is offering this as a bad reading of what Aristotle intends.
Related Idea
Idea 18227 We desire final things just for themselves, and not for the sake of something else [Aristotle]