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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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If it be not in accordance with your ideas of the summum bonum, remember that it is not his.
The summum bonum of their desires and aspirations is to pass smoothly and quietly through life.
The first we shall consider goes by sketching some conception of the good life, the summum bonum.
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.
Biodiversity was their summum bonum, and the desert states were their preferred zones of operation.
Paley used to say that to read Tristram Shandy was the summum bonum of life.

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