| 单词 | supreme good |
| 释义 | > as lemmassupreme good supreme good n. the highest good, esp. the ultimate goal according to which values and priorities are established in an ethical system; cf. highest good n. at highest adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2b, summum bonum n. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [noun] > highest good goodeOE highest goodeOE sovereigna1340 summum bonum1563 supreme good1601 chief good1663 kalon1749 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 123 It proceedeth from him, who is the supreme good, and the limit of all goodnes. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 342 How carefull is he in making his barnes larger, in filling his chests fuller..; but how respectlesse of that supreme good, wherein all happinesse consisteth? 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 121 It [sc. religion] influences our wills, rectifies and subdues our passions, turns the biass of our minds from the objects and pleasures of sense, and fixes them upon the supreme good. 1873 A. P. Peabody Man. Moral Philos. xiv. 198 He represented pleasure as the supreme good, and its pleasure-yielding capacity as the sole criterion by which any act or habit is to be judged. 1915 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 25 310 Even though humility be the supreme good, then one should resist the aggression of an enemy who threatens to destroy one's life before one has cultivated that virtue. 2008 J. F. Walter Reading Marriage in Amer. Romance i. 6 At the rock bottom of this social philosophy.., ‘survival’ (or absence of pain) is the supreme good. < as lemmas |
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