The first we shall consider goes by sketching some conception of the good life, the summum bonum. |
Paley used to say that to read Tristram Shandy was the summum bonum of life. |
This ideal has been part of legal thinking for more than 2000 years, when the ancient Roman advocate Marcus Tullius Cicero put forward the principle of summum bonum. |
If it be not in accordance with your ideas of the summum bonum, remember that it is not his. |
Nirvana is the summum bonum of Buddhism and goal of the Eightfold Path. |
Love is the summum bonum, and every manifestation of it has something divine. |