summum bonum

[ soom-oom boh-noom; English suhm-uhm boh-nuhm ]

noun

, Latin.

1. the highest or chief good.

summum bonum

/ ˈsʊmʊm ˈbɒnʊm /

noun

1. the principle of goodness in which all moral values are included or from which they are derived; highest or supreme good

Example Sentences

This new emotional centre offered the human summum bonum: release from oneself.

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It had been passed from one to another before we made port that the Hotel Bellevue was the summum bonum of Hati.

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There are yet other arguments remaining (continues Sokrates) which show that pleasure cannot be the Summum Bonum.

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This fulness of life has been the summum bonum, the highest good, which mankind has sighed for in every age and clime.

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Life was at last a thing much to be desired, and the Giver of life was good, and the summum bonum was deathless love.

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