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Single Idea 5019

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness]

Full Idea

The supreme happiness of man consists in the greatest possible increase of his perfection.

Gist of Idea

Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking [1679], p.1)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Parkinson,G.H.R. [Dent 1973], p.1


A Reaction

I fear that (being a great intellectual) he had a rather intellectual interpretation of 'perfection'. This is in danger of being a tautology, but if the proposal is given an Aritotelian slant I am sympathetic.