Talk:Summum bonum

I asked this in another section, but: are summum bonum and eutheism really the same thing? Eutheism is simply the belief that God exists and is good. Summum bonum says so much more about God than that, and is far more encompassing. Eutheism seems to redirect here, perhaps that is a mistake. I wouldn't take eutheism for granted, my opinion is that it is something separate from this, less rigid, but definitely a belief set on its own.

Craig zimmerman 23:09, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I know. I simply redirected Eutheism here for lack of another article. It's a "Redirect with possibilities" (check the Eutheism page). dab 08:44, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) --- I thought the term was Latin, and was a Roman translation of a Greek philosophical concept dating to Socrates. Wouldn't that predate St. Augustine?Drernie 00:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Factual accuracy

I added this template because of the February 2006 edits adding Zoroastrianism and general Persian promotion. I don't know enough about the subject to tell whether Ahura-Mazda is portrayed that way, and I know there's debate about how much his teachings influenced Christianity. Maestlin 00:15, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Concept in antiquity

This article implies that summum bonum is primarily a Christian concept that results from an imagined "progress" toward monotheism. This is hardly surprising given that the Catholic Encyclopedia is the main source -- a marvelous reference, don't get me wrong, but dated and obviously biased. But summum bonum is also a term used in ancient philosophy, and the current article makes it problematic to link from (in my current case) an article on an Epicurean philosopher who wrote a treatise De summo bono. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes. "Summum bonum" was the Latin phrase Cicero chose to translate Plato's name for the highest Form of the Good, "to agathon." 64.90.143.2 (talk) 18:00, 6 June 2011 (UTC)Samgwan Spiess