Deliberation, Defined.
Deliberation is a “calculating” (λογιστική) operation by which we try to understand what actions have a direct or indirect relationship with the end, e.g. what actions have a certain end as their effect, or produce the best conditions for achieving the end. Aristotle’s remark that not only deliberation, but also choice is of the “means” to an end, rather than of the end itself, is significant: since choice is deliberated desire, it shows that the desire for a certain end is transmitted to the conditions useful for achieving that end
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They desire in act just the ultimate end, the common good, and consider the ends for the sake of which they prescribe as the intermediate stages and instrumental conditions in view of the ultimate end.
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