Summum Bonum is Latin meaning "highest good " Scripture presents God Himself to be man's summum bonum
The chief excellence; the highest attainable good SOCRATES said knowledge is virtue, and ignorance is vice ARISTOTLE said that happiness is the greatest good BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE and HELVETIUS contended that self-interest is the perfection of the ethical end BENTHAM and MILL were for the greatest happiness of the greatest number HERBERT SPENCER places it in those actions which best tend to the survival of the individual and the race LETOURNEAU places it in utilitarianism
Latin for highest good This is the ultimate goal of the moral system presented in the second Critique; it involves the ideal distribuè² ion of happiness in exact proportion to each person's virtue In order to conè‹žeive of its possibility, we must postulate the existence of God and human immortality, thus giving these ideas practical reality
the supreme good in which all moral values are included or from which they are derived
Latin phrase meaning "highest good " Hence, that which is intrinsically valuable, the ultimate goal or end of human life generally Also see OCP and noesis
summum bonum
التركية النطق
sʌmım bänım
النطق
/ˈsəməm ˈbänəm/ /ˈsʌməm ˈbɑːnəm/
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() From medieval philosophy; Latin for the highest good.