summum bonum
Americannoun
noun
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After all, if what is good for a nation is more important than what is good for a family, surely the greatest good, the secular summum bonum, is the good of the human race.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2011
They are his ultimate criteria and resort, and they conflict with those which the supplanting faith presents as the summum bonum of life.
From India, Its Life and Thought by John P. (John Peter) Jones
Hence the summum bonum necessarily consists in the prima Naturæ or perfect soundness of mind and body.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by John Dunlop
Similarly the conception of the self as a moral unity arises naturally out of the impossibility of finding the summum bonum in a succession of transient states of consciousness such as hedonism for example postulates.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
The summum bonum he considered to be a contented acquiescence in the decrees of the Deity.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
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