More often, a concrete goal (such as helping a friend or supporting a civic project) presents itself as the starting point of deliberation rather than the premise that happiness consists in virtuous activity.
A form of practical reasoning in which an agent has some end and reasons to a sufficient means for achieving that end.
eudaimonia(Aristotle's ethical theory; the broadest sense of the good life)
Often translated as 'happiness'; for Aristotle, consists in being a virtuous person over a complete life, requiring both virtuous qualities/dispositions and acting on them
Aristotle replies: “Virtue makes the goal right, practical wisdom the things leading to it” (1144a7–8). By this he cannot mean that there is no room for reasoning about our ultimate end. For as we have seen, he gives a reasoned defense of his conception of happiness as virtuous activity. What he must have in mind, when he says that virtue makes the goal right, is that deliberation typically proceeds from a goal that is far more specific than the goal of attaining happiness by acting virtuously.