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id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the poem by Robert Browning, see <a href="/wiki/Summum_Bonum_(poem)" title="Summum Bonum (poem)">Summum Bonum (poem)</a>.</div> <p> <i><b>Summum bonum</b></i> is a Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good, which was introduced by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_philosopher" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman philosopher">Roman philosopher</a> <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDinneen1909_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDinneen1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to denote the fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based — that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life. Since Cicero, the expression has acquired a secondary meaning as the essence or ultimate metaphysical principle of Goodness itself, or what Plato called the <a href="/wiki/Form_of_the_Good" title="Form of the Good">Form of the Good</a>. These two meanings do not necessarily coincide. For example, <a href="/wiki/Epicurean" class="mw-redirect" title="Epicurean">Epicurean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cyrenaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyrenaic">Cyrenaic</a> philosophers claimed that the 'good life' consistently aimed for pleasure, without suggesting that pleasure constituted the meaning or essence of Goodness outside the ethical sphere. In <a href="/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum" title="De finibus bonorum et malorum"><i>De finibus</i></a>, Cicero explains and compares the ethical systems of several schools of Greek philosophy, including <a href="/wiki/Stoicism" title="Stoicism">Stoicism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicureanism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelianism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Platonism" title="Platonism">Platonism</a>, based on how each defines the ethical <i>summum bonum</i> differently. </p><p>The term was used in <a href="/wiki/Medieval_philosophy" title="Medieval philosophy">medieval philosophy</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Thomism" title="Thomism">Thomist</a> synthesis of <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelianism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, the highest good is usually defined as the life of the righteous and/or the life led in <a href="/wiki/Communion_(Christian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Communion (Christian)">communion</a> with <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> and according to <a href="/wiki/Divine_law" title="Divine law">God's precepts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDinneen1909_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDinneen1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Kantianism" title="Kantianism">Kantianism</a>, it was used to describe the <a href="/wiki/Ultimate_importance" class="mw-redirect" title="Ultimate importance">ultimate importance</a>, the singular and overriding end which human beings ought to pursue.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plato_and_Aristotle">Plato and Aristotle</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Summum_bonum&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plato and Aristotle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Republic_(Plato)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Republic (Plato)">The Republic</a></i> argued that, "In the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen...to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Silent contemplation was the route to appreciation of the Idea of the Good.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> in his <i><a href="/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics" title="Nicomachean Ethics">Nicomachean Ethics</a></i> accepted that the target of human activity, "Must be the 'Good', that is, the supreme good.", but challenged Plato's Idea of the Good with the <a href="/wiki/Pragmatism" title="Pragmatism">pragmatic</a> question: "Will one who has had a vision of the Idea itself become thereby a better doctor or general?".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, arguably at least, Aristotle's concept of the <a href="/wiki/Unmoved_mover" title="Unmoved mover">unmoved mover</a> owed much to Plato's Idea of the Good.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hellenic_syncretism">Hellenic syncretism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Summum_bonum&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hellenic syncretism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Philo" title="Philo">Philo</a> of Alexandria harmonized the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> God with the unmoved mover and the Idea of the Good.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Plotinus" title="Plotinus">Plotinus</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Neoplatonism" title="Neoplatonism">neoplatonic</a> philosopher, built on Plato's Good for his concept of the supreme One, while <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> drew on <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrianism</a> to develop his eternal principle of good.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine of Hippo</a> in his early writings offered the <i>summum bonum</i> as the highest human goal, but was later to identify it as a feature of the Christian God<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <i>De natura boni</i> (<i>On the Nature of Good</i>, c. 399). Augustine denies the positive existence of absolute <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>, describing a world with <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> as the supreme good at the center, and defining different grades of evil as different stages of remoteness from that center.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_developments">Later developments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Summum_bonum&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later developments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>summum bonum</i> has continued to be a focus of attention in Western philosophy, secular and religious. <a href="/wiki/Hegel" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegel">Hegel</a> replaced Plato's dialectical ascent to the Good by his own dialectical ascent to the Real.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/G._E._Moore" title="G. E. Moore">G. E. Moore</a> placed the highest good in personal relations and the contemplation of beauty – even if not all his followers in the <a href="/wiki/Bloomsbury_Group" title="Bloomsbury Group">Bloomsbury Group</a> may have appreciated what <a href="/wiki/Clive_Bell" title="Clive Bell">Clive Bell</a> called his "all-important distinction between 'Good on the whole' and 'Good as a whole'".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Immanuel_Kant_portrait_c1790.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Immanuel_Kant_portrait_c1790.jpg/220px-Immanuel_Kant_portrait_c1790.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Immanuel_Kant_portrait_c1790.jpg/330px-Immanuel_Kant_portrait_c1790.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Immanuel_Kant_portrait_c1790.jpg/440px-Immanuel_Kant_portrait_c1790.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1617" data-file-height="1802" /></a><figcaption>Immanuel Kant</figcaption></figure> <p>The doctrine of the highest good maintained by <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a> can be seen as the fulfillment of all rational will. <sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the supreme end of the will, meaning that beyond the attainment of a good <a href="/wiki/Will_(philosophy)" title="Will (philosophy)">will</a>, which is moral excellence signified by abiding by the <a href="/wiki/Categorical_imperative" title="Categorical imperative">categorical imperative</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pure_practical_reason" title="Pure practical reason">pure practical reason</a>, this is not reducible to hypothetical imperatives such as happiness.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, in virtue of the doctrine of the highest good, Kant postulates the existence of God and the eternal existence of rational agents, in order to reconcile three premises: (i) that agents are morally obligated to fully attain the highest good; (ii) that the object of an agent's obligation must be possible; (iii) that an agent's full realization of the highest good is not possible.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judgments">Judgments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Summum_bonum&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Judgments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Intrinsic_value_(ethics)#Life_stances_and_intrinsic_value" title="Intrinsic value (ethics)">Intrinsic value (ethics) § Life stances and intrinsic value</a></div> <p>Judgments on the highest good have generally fallen into four categories:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDinneen1909_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDinneen1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Utilitarianism" title="Utilitarianism">Utilitarianism</a>, when the highest good is identified with the maximum possible psychological happiness for the maximum number of people;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudaemonism" class="mw-redirect" title="Eudaemonism">Eudaemonism</a> or <a href="/wiki/Virtue_ethics" title="Virtue ethics">virtue ethics</a>, when the highest good is identified with <a href="/wiki/Eudaemonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Eudaemonia">flourishing</a>;</li> <li>Rational <a href="/wiki/Deontologism" class="mw-redirect" title="Deontologism">deontologism</a>, when the highest good is identified with <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtue</a> or duty;</li> <li>Rational eudaemonism, or tempered deontologism, when both virtue and happiness are combined in the highest good.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Summum_bonum&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Intrinsic_value_(ethics)" title="Intrinsic value (ethics)">Intrinsic value (ethics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meaning_of_life" title="Meaning of life">Meaning of life</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omnibenevolence" title="Omnibenevolence">Omnibenevolence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summum" title="Summum">Summum</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Summum_bonum&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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