PHL267H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Summum Bonum, Thomism, Primogeniture
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Intro to political philosophy 25th september 2014. Recall the artistotleian picture: all action is aimed at some good and the ultimate aim is happiness. Someone who lives virtuously nothing else to be happy. Felicity in this life consisteth not in the repose of a mind satisfied. For there is no such finis ultimus nor summum bonum as is spoken in the books of the old moral philosophers . Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter. The cause whereof is that object of man"s desire is not to enjoy once only, and for a perpetual and restless desire of power . So that in the first place, i put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death .
