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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Summum Bonum
Britannica 11thSUMMUM BONUM (Lat. for " highest good "), in ethics, the ideal of human attainment. The significance of the term depends upon the character of the ethical system in which it occurs. It may be viewed as a perfect moral state: as pleasure or happiness (see HEDON ...
Vol. 26, pp. 81-81
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Eudoxus
Britannica 11th... n not distinguishing the different kinds of pleasure and in making pleasure the summum bonum. See J. A. Letronne, Sur les ecrites et les travaux d'Eudoxe de Cnide, d'apres L. Ideler (1841); G. V. Schiaparelli, Le Sfere omocentriche di Eudosso (Milan, 1876) ; T ...
Vol. 9, pp. 882-882
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