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SUMMUM BONUM (Lat. for " highest good ")

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 81 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
SUMMUM BONUM (Lat. for " highest good ") , in ethics, the ideal of human attainment. The significance of the
term
  depends upon the
character
  of the ethical
system
  in which it occurs. It may be viewed as a perfect moral state: as
pleasure
  or happiness (see
HEDONISM
 ; - EUDAEM0NISM); as
physical
  perfection; as wealth, and so forth. If, however, we abandon intuitional ethics, it is reasonable to argue that the
term
  summum bonum ceases to have any real significance inasmuch as actions are not intrinsically
good
  or bad, while the
complete
  sceptic strives after no systematic ideal.


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