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What is a summum bonum?

What is a summum bonum? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (philosophy) The greatest good; the ultimate importance, the singular end which human beings ought to pursue.
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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.

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