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Aristotle

  • Code of Hammurabi
    In ethics: St. Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics

    …an ultimate end, or goal—a summum bonum—at which all human action is directed; and, like Aristotle, he conceived of this end as necessarily connected with happiness. This conception was Christianized, however, by the idea that happiness is to be found in the love of God. Thus, a person seeks to…

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