‘That’s not exactly Aristotle, Scott.’
‘Actually, you’re wrong there. It is.’
Louise frowned.
‘Aristotle really did think that football contained the meaning of life.’
‘Bollocks.’
‘No, he did. Listen. This is what he says in his book, Nicomachean Ethics.’ I paused for a moment to remember the quote exactly.
‘This is going to be a joke, isn’t it?’
‘On the contrary. I think he knew exactly what he was saying, and as usual he was right. Aristotle says this: “Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly, every action and choice of action, is thought to have some good as its object. This is why the good has rightly been defined as the object of all endeavour. Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is good.”’ I shrugged. ‘Well, don’t you see? A goal changes everything.’
Now that’s a philosophical truth.