summum bonum
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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
This, and perhaps a battle-field and a dashing charge every now and then, would probably have realized his dreams of the summum bonum.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
Love is the summum bonum, and every manifestation of it has something divine.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
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 W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
The summum bonum he placed in a life according to virtue.
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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