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
In consonance with this, the salvation which is exalted as the summum bonum, to be forever sought by the one, is self-knowledge, by the other self-realization in conformity to the Divine Will.
From India, Its Life and Thought by John P. (John Peter) Jones
It is true that pleasure is the summum bonum of Epicurus, but his conception of that pleasure is profoundly modified by the Socratic doctrine of prudence and the eudaemonism of Aristotle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
What is the supreme good, the summum bonum?
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
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
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