[Serious] The Good

[Belacqua]

Sounds like the "final cause" is probably unknowable. 

First we'd have to specify which final cause we were working on. A human's final cause is not the same as a candy bar's. 

Second, while it's true that a human's final cause might be to feed a lion, that's a good for the lion and not the person. 

A final cause which is good for the person would be the actualization of as much of that person's potential as possible. To be the thing that his potential, as a baby, was pointed at. 

If we believe that there is something unique to humans, then we might be able to say that the actualization of this potential is a uniquely human good. 

So we have two things to work on, I guess: 1) what goal or condition most actualizes human potential? and 2) What if anything is specific to humans, such that this is the thing which human potentiality points toward?