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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: for example, at the bidding of a physician, do they will the drinking of
the medicine which is painful, or the health for the sake of which they
drink?
POLUS: Clearly, the health.
SOCRATES: And when men go on a voyage or engage in business, they do not
will that which they are doing at the time; for who would desire to take
the risk of a voyage or the trouble of business?--But they will, to have
the wealth for the sake of which they go on a voyage.
POLUS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: And is not this universally true? If a man does something for
the sake of something else, he wills not that which he does, but that for
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