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You have it backwards!
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Aristotle says this. Doctors don't deliberate about whether to heal; rather, they assume the end and deliberate about the means.
But don't we sometimes deliberate about ends? Don't doctors sometimes deliberate about whether to heal a person or let the person die?
Maybe Aristotle only means that we don't deliberate about ultimate ends. But can't we deliberate about whether pleasure or honor or contemplation is our ultimate end?
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This is plausible, but it goes against what Aristotle says.
We sometimes seem to deliberate about ends and means both. As you try to figure out what you have to do (the means) in order to get into medical school (the end), you may reconsider the end if the means seem unpleasant.
Maybe he means that we don't deliberate about ultimate ends. In my example, perhaps you're deliberating about what you need to do to be happy.