bonum

In the form bonum, the ending -um denotes masculine accusative singular, neuter accusative singular, or neuter nominative singular.

(Meaning 2) Bonum est bonum: What is (a) good (thing) is good.

There's an excellent Latin phrase for all that: De mortuis nil nisi bonum.

I knew Steve, I happen to agree, but de mortuis nil nisi bonum, as they say.

Individual choice is not the summum bonum ultra of a good life.

I only ask because if you're loving what you're doing, then there's usually some modus operandi or Summum bonum driving you.

People enjoying this experience are clearly morally corrupt lumpenproletariat deserving to be shamed and cowed by the self flagellating self appointed protectors of the summum bonum.

Forget the exclusivity, what we're talking about is the summum bonum: the ultimate goal according to which values and principles are established.

A person whose summum bonum is maximum comfort and security will have a very different life than if they had instead pursued creativity, justice, progress, etc.

Bonus amat bonum: The good (man) loves what is good.

Most philosophers (for most of human history, anyway) and what you call religious people typically take God to be the highest good, the supreme summum bonum.

What is your highest good ( summum bonum )?

> De mortibus I had to look up when this meant, I think you mean "De /mortuis/ [nil nisi bonum]" [0]?

I claim that it is God, the Summum Bonum, the source and the destination of all that is.

Bonum -- apparently that's the latin word for good?

When you die, your orientation becomes fixed forever, and if it isn't on the Summum Bonum, the Highest Good, the only thing capable of satisfying Man's heart, then it will be some lesser real or apparent good.