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
At this time of life too, tranquillity is the summum bonum.
From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Van Buren, Martin
What is this end in itself, this summum bonum, at which all human activity ultimately aims.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
It is assumed by all the disputants in the De Finibus as the foundation of the inquiry into the summum bonum, that "sapiens semper beatus est."
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
And if this were all, philosophy, the knowledge of the Ideas, would be the sole constituent of the summum bonum.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
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