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SUMMUM BONUM (Lat. for " highest good ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 81 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUMMUM BONUM (

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Lat. for " highest
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good ")  , in
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ethics, the ideal of human attainment . The significance of the
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term depends upon the
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character of the ethical
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system in which it occurs . It may be viewed as a perfect moral
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state: as
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pleasure or happiness (see
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HEDONISM; - EUDAEM0NISM); as
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physical perfection; as
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wealth, and so forth . If, however, we abandon intuitional ethics, it is reasonable to argue that the term summum bonum ceases to have any real significance inasmuch as actions are not intrinsically
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good or
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bad, while the
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complete sceptic strives after no systematic ideal .

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