{"id":582342,"date":"2023-12-30T07:55:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T12:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=582342"},"modified":"2023-12-30T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T13:00:01","slug":"the-summum-bonum-for-individuals-and-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/30\/the-summum-bonum-for-individuals-and-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summum Bonum for individuals and states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before constructing the ideal state we must know what is the most desirable life for states and individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The most desirable life for an individual?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not from the possession of external goods <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A virtuous life MUST BE equipped with external goods as <strong><em>instruments<\/em><\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue, and not from the possession of external goods. But a virtuous life must be equipped with external goods as instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/instruo#Latin\">Instruo<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d to build.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instrument \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to build.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before constructing the ideal state we must know what is the most desirable life for states and individuals. True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue, and not from the possession of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582356,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582342\/revisions\/582356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}