Greek Ethics generally was dominated (I believe rightly and sanely) by the idea of the good or value inherent in things, including conduct and character, as that towards which life is oriented and which makes it worth living.
(John H. Muirhead, Rule and End in Morals, Select Bibliographies Reprint Series [Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969], 22 [first published in 1932])
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 