CHAPTER XIV

ULTIMATE GOOD

1. The notion of Virtue, as commonly conceived, cannot without a logical circle be identified with the notion of Ultimate Good: 391-394

2. nor is it in accordance with Common Sense to regard Subjective Rightness of Will, or other elements of Perfection, as constituting Ultimate Good. 394-395

3. What is ultimately good or desirable must be Desirable Consciousness. 395-397

4. _i.e._ either simply Happiness, or certain objective relations of the Conscious Mind. 398-400

5. When these alternatives are fairly presented, Common Sense seems disposed to choose the former: especially as we can now explain its instinctive disinclination to admit Pleasure as ultimate end: while the other alternative leaves us without a criterion for determining the comparative value of different elements of ‘Good.’ 400-407