Deliberation: Object

Aristotle’s stance seems to be fairly clear: deliberation is a reasoning about what is useful for achieving an end: τὰ πρὸς τὸ τέλος. The end, therefore, is the necessary starting-point of deliberation, not its object. Hence, the decision, or rather the choice (προαίρεσις), that forms the conclusion of a deliberation is the choice of what has been deliberated because it has turned out to be useful for achieving the end.