Full Idea
What sort of things can one posit as good in themselves? Everything that is pursued even when considered in isolation - intelligence, for example, and sight, and some pleasures and honours?
Clarification
'Posit' means propose
Gist of Idea
Intelligence and sight, and some pleasures and honours, are candidates for being good in themselves
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1096b15)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.71
A Reaction
He means good-for-man, of course. If only 'some' pleasures are good, that implies a further good which is used to judge the pleasures. For Aristotle what is 'fine' (kalon) is the ultimate self-evident good.